Passing through China

by | Apr 1, 2008 | Business, Thoughts, Travel

Well, I’m not exactly passing through China, but rather visiting Shanghai for the Intel Developer forum. It’s an interesting city, and with a population of 18 million people there are actually more people living there than in my own country. Go figure. Actually, that could be a scary thought… or a comforting one, if you take into account the saying that “No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, 1.3 billion Chinese couldn’t care less.” To be honest, it might be up to 1.4 by now as the 1.3 figure was almost a year ago. Oh, and did I mention that they likely have the largest online population too now. Well, almost.

On board of my KLM flight was also a Dutch delegation on a one-week china trip. Follow their journey on marketingfacts.nl (Dutch only).

On a side-note, It was a bit of an adjustment to see all those people smoking everywhere again, as we’ve had so many bans on smoking in Europe, that it’s hard to imagine that many smokers all over the place again. I was also surprised that I didn’t see that many fancy new cars all over the place… mabe I was just in the wrong district.

Shift happens

by | Feb 18, 2008 | Technology, Thoughts

.. and it is still happening. At an ever increasing pace. Check out the presentation.

“Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational power of the human brain.” I’m especially interested in this one; I should be around to witness it. Let’s just hope that supercomputer doesn’t turn out to be Skynet.

Here is the original “Did you know 2.0“

Read more at Shift Happens

*Update*
There is also a Shift Movie in the works. Watch it here.