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LIBRARIES FOLLOWING RETAILERS' LEAD
Libraries increasingly find themselves in a quandary between growing
expectations among patrons for personalized services and libraries'
traditional stance as a strong advocate for personal privacy.
Commercial enterprises such as Amazon and Netflix typically make
suggestions to customers based on previous purchases and can notify
users when certain products are available. The library at North
Carolina State University is implementing a program that offers
students similar services based on past usage. To offer such services,
however, the library must keep more-detailed patron records than many
libraries keep, given the authority of government officials under the
USA PATRIOT Act to subpoena those records. Officials from the
university report that students are comfortable trading some measure of
privacy for the convenience of personalized services. Another program
at the University of Notre Dame offers similar suggestions to users,
which, according to its developer, should simplify research for many
students. Michael Golrick, the city librarian in Bridgeport, Conn.,
said that the large numbers of immigrants in his community would not be
so willing to trade privacy for convenience. Many of them, he said,
"came to this country to avoid the kinds of surveillance and
persecution we're seeing tinges of today."
New York Times, 20 November 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/weekinreview/20cowan.html
UNIVERSITY COMBINES EXERCISE AND TECHNOLOGY
The recreation center at Minnesota State University now includes
computers that can be used while people are exercising. Although many
fitness centers include individual TVs for treadmills and other pieces
of equipment, officials at Minnesota State wanted to offer something
more. They set up 40 adjustable stands, each of which has a computer,
monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Students using the rec center can surf
the Web, check e-mail, or perform other computer tasks while they
exercise. One professor at the university said he will incorporate the
new facilities into one of his fitness courses, where students will
exercise while taking quizzes and doing other activities on the
computers. Officials at other schools said they would consider adding
similar facilities to their rec centers, noting that more and more
students grew up multitasking and expecting to have access to a
computer all the time. Some disagree with the approach. Stephanie Maks,
who worked as a personal trainer for 20 years, said often the biggest
hurdle to an effective exercise program is letting go of technology.
"Don't bring the office with you to the gym," she said.
Wired News, 20 November 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69633,00.html
CITIES AND TOWNS ADDING WIRELESS NETWORKS
Cities and towns across the United States are launching, or announcing
plans to launch, wireless broadband networks. Wireless technologies are
evolving to allow increasingly secure, robust networks in city-wide
installations. Large cities, such as Philadelphia and San Francisco,
and smaller towns, such as Lebanon, Oregon, are establishing wireless
municipal networks for reasons ranging from economic development to
improved services for residents. In Tucson, Arizona, a wireless network
will allow communication between ambulances and one of the city's
hospitals, improving patient care. That network is expected to be
online in mid-2006, and the service could be extended to other medical
facilities in the city. Other municipalities see wireless Internet
access as a valuable step in narrowing the digital divide and bringing
the benefits of technology to lower-income residents. In Mountain View,
California, Google, which is headquartered there, will develop a
wireless broadband network at no cost to the city.
Federal Computer Week, 21 November 2005
http://www.fcw.com/article91475-11-18-05-Web
ONLINE EDUCATION EXPANDS IN AFRICA
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced a grant to fund
online education efforts in Africa. The $900,000 grant will support the
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa consortium, which is working to
develop an online portal that will offer a broad array of educational
materials from institutions such as MIT, the Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health, and Chinese Open Resources for Education. According to
Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, rector of the African Virtual University,
which is part of the consortium, Africa is in great need of math and
science teachers, and the new portal will be used in "teach the
teacher" programs to educate new instructors in sub-Saharan Africa. The
online resources will not be limited to teachers, however. Beginning in
Tanzania and South Africa and spreading to other African countries, the
portal will be openly available to anyone with Internet access. Dzvimbo
said he hopes that eventually teachers in Africa will join the online
efforts alongside the professors and students in the United States who
will be initially involved.
Inside Higher Ed, 17 November 2005
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/17/africa
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News from other sources:
The US "Patriot Act" has suffered several defeats of bills
attempting to extend its powers.
and
*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
The US "Patriot Act" has suffered several defeats of bills
attempting to extend its powers.
*
Iran's third proposed oil minister has been rejected due to
"strong ties to the US and the UK."
This third time around puts Iran in "uncharted constitutional
waters" that might end up with the elimination of the minister
of oil as a position.
The first two were eliminated as lacking expertise, and the
third was said to have strong ties to the US and the UK, as
his daughter is citizen of the UK, and that he, himself, is
the possessor of a US green card, both of which he denies.
Source: BBC
*
Michael Scanlon, former aide to Congressional power Tom Delay,
and partner of famous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pled guilty to a
conspiracy to bribe public officials stemming from investigations
into attempted fraud of his Indian tribe clients and corruption
of a Congressman.
Source: Washington Post, 11/21/05
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
The Russian government now requires registration of all "non-
governmental organizations." [NGO's]
This is expected to end all such organizations other then the
select few kept for display purposes.
This would include New York-based Human Rights Watch, who has
maintained their Moscow office for years, as well as a number
of other such organizations such as Amnesty International and
Greenpeace, etc.
The new law, just passed by the Duma, would ban those foreign
NGO's altogether, and also ban foreign workers and money from
being used in Russian NGO's.
NGO leaders have protested, saying this will end civil rights
in Russia.
The law was passed 380 to 18.
Source: Reuters
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Japan's landing of a spacecraft on an asteroid to take samples
and return them to Earth laboratories for scientific analysis,
will renew interest in the old science fiction idea of "meteor
mining" as a potential economic force.
Even a tiny gold, platinum, or iridium asteroid under 100 feet
in diameter could destroy the world's economic system, because
in spacefaring terms, our finanical institutions are based on,
still to this day, "beads and trinkets" that could still buy a
Manhattan Island for $24 worth of such beads and trickets from
the perspective of any spacefaring race that could simply pull
such an asteroid out of orbit and give it to us for Manhattan.
Think such asteroids don't exist?
Just ask any dinosaur expert what wiped out those dinosaurs.
It was an iridium asteroid, and a lot bigger than 100 feet.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"Television exists to create advertizing."
"Politics demands we have access to those oil fields."
"Nobody on their death bed says,
I wish I'd spent more time at the office."
[Quoting Barbara Bush]
[_I_ might say that, if there aren't a million freely
downloadable eBooks by the time I am lying there.]
Charlie Rose and Ted Koppel, 11/22/05
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
German companies now occupy 0 of Europe's Top 10
20 years ago there were 7 in the Top 10
[Interestingly enough, in reporting this story, I could not find one
single online report, even from the BBC, from whose radio broadcasts
I first heard it. MSNBC *had* done a story on it, but it vanished.]
However, from another perspective, Germany's GDP is twice as much as
the United Kingdom's, so it may be that while the largest companies,
at least in Germany, aren't growing as fast, the economy is still an
awfully large factor in Europe.
Source: Global E-Commerce, Nov 21, 2005
In related news, since the year 2000, the list of the Top 100 Economic
World Powers names more than half of these as companies, not countries:
"Of the 100 largest economies in the world,
51 are now global corporations; only 49 are countries."
www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/top200.htm
***
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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POEM OF THE WEEK
sounds
my flute fills with sandalwood fragrance
the air is adorned with jewels of smoke
they tenderly encircle the heart of a cloud
the skies ablaze return caressing rain
my helpless lips have found delicious burden
a garland of melodies is my breath
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Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design, by Edward Godfrey 17137
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Documents of the South African Republic, ed. by Williams and Hicks 17136
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Taboo, by James Branch Cabell 17134
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Noteworthy Families (Modern Science), Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster 17128
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Niilo Klimin maanalainen matka, by Ludvig Holberg 17127
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Five Happy Weeks, by Margaret E. Sangster 17126
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More William, by Richmal Crompton 17125
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The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography, by Samuel Butler 17124
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Journal des Goncourt (Troisime volume), by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt 17123
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[Language: French]
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Twenty-Four Short Sermons On Universal Salvation, by John Bovee Dods 17122
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De Aarde en haar Volken, Jaargang 1906, by Various 17121
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Fashionable Philosophy, by Laurence Oliphant 17120
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The Vision of Sir Launfal, by James Russell Lowell 17119
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The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms, by Laura Lee Hope 17118
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An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, by Oliver Goldsmith 17117
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Ang Liham, by Jose Rizal 17116
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Fruits of Toil in the London Missionary Society, by Various 17115
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Indian Ghost Stories, by S. Mukerji 17113
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds, by Various 17112
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The Meaning of the War, by Henri Bergson 17111
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If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
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are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a
bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census"
is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more
people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source.
45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a
possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I
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Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures,
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between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth.
In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this
normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.
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UN MEETING TO ADDRESS CONTROL OF INTERNET
The United Nations (UN) is hosting an international conference this
week in Tunisia to address concerns about U.S. control of the Internet.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was set
up in 1998 to oversee the Domain Name System, which reconciles Web
addresses and directs Internet traffic to proper destinations. Despite
an understanding that ICANN would become independent of any national
ties, the Bush administration this year rejected such a move, and the
organization still operates under the authority of the U.S. Department
of Commerce. This situation has left many other countries complaining
that the United States holds the power over a global resource, and nine
different proposals for putting ICANN under the guidance of an
international body will be addressed at the meeting in Tunisia, which
will host as many as 15,000 delegates. Some individuals who were part
of the work that led to the Internet have said that concerns over ICANN
are misguided. Leonard Kleinrock, computer scientist at UCLA, said,
"Everyone seems to think that the D.N.S. system is a big deal, but
it's not the heartbeat of the Internet." Robert Kahn, one of the
developers behind TCP/IP, said of ICANN, "There is nothing in there to
control, and there are huge issues that the governments of the world
really do need to work on."
New York Times, 14 November 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/business/14register.html
[What is NOT mentioned is that this meeting addressed using the
availability of information via the Internet to combat poverty,
and that, in fact, this was a major, if not THE major, topic.
The official name of the conference is:
The World Summit on the Information Society
"The hurdle here is more political than financial. The costs of
connectivity, computers and mobile telephones can be brought down,"
said United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.]
GOOGLE FLOATS IDEA OF RENTING BOOKS
Google has reportedly proposed a plan to rent books online. An unnamed
publisher said that Google suggested the idea of letting consumers pay
a fee, equal to 10 percent of the price of a printed copy of the book,
to have online access to the text for one week. Rented books would not
be downloadable or printable, according to the publisher, which said
that although the fee Google suggested is too low, the notion of
renting texts might represent a viable new model for content
distribution. A spokesperson from Google said that although "Google
Print is exploring new access models to help authors and publishers
sell more books online," the company at this time has nothing to
announce. Other publishers said they were curious about a rental
program for books and are interested in hearing more details, as long
as the program ensures that copyright holders are compensated. David
Steinberger, chief executive of Perseus Books, also noted that for a
rental program to be successful, it would have to augment physical book
sales, not limit them.
Wall Street Journal, 14 November 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113192806168096032.html
SNOCAP ADDS WARNER MUSIC TO QUIVER
Online music service Snocap has reached an agreement with Warner Music
Group, giving Snocap deals with all four major record labels as well as
a number of smaller, independent labels. The company already had struck
deals with Sony BMG, Universal Music, and EMI Group. Snocap was founded
by Shawn Fanning, creator of the original Napster. The company uses
"fingerprinting" technology to label electronic music, which gives
consumers online access to music while giving record labels the ability
to control how files are used. Copyright owners can register songs with
Snocap and then use the company's management system to set properties
for how each track can be used. According to the company, consumers who
use Snocap can be assured of having only legal downloads of music,
without the risk of litigation for illegal file trading and without the
risk of downloading viruses or other malware that is sometimes included
in music on P2P services.
CNET, 13 November 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5949869.html
CONGRESS EXAMINES CONTROVERSIAL PORTIONS OF PATRIOT ACT
Members of a Congressional committee this week took up discussions of
the USA PATRIOT Act, including two highly controversial sections of the
law. Several provisions of the law are scheduled to expire this year,
and the committee is charged with reconciling House and Senate
proposals to extend those provisions. Expected to be the focus of the
discussions are Sections 215 and 505, which greatly expand federal
authority to obtain information such as phone and library records on
individuals and which prevent those under investigation from revealing,
even to their attorneys, that they are under investigation. Advocates
for civil liberties have been pressing federal officials for details on
how these key sections of the law have been applied, including a letter
recently sent by five U.S. Senators to Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales, demanding data on how many so-called national security
letters have been issued since the PATRIOT Act was enacted. Although
federal officials have revealed few specifics, supporters of the
legislation argue that "vigorous oversight by congressional committees
has uncovered no instances of abuse," according to Sen. Pat Roberts
(R-Kans.). Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) noted, "The very act of
surveilling citizens who aren't even suspected of wrongdoing is an
abuse in itself."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 November 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/11/2005111101t.htm
FEDS PUSH FOR STRICTER COPYRIGHT PROTECTIONS
According to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Justice Department
recently submitted a package of legislative proposals to Congress that
would broaden the scope of laws to protect copyright and would
strengthen law enforcement powers to investigate such crimes. Among the
proposals are recommendations to allow enforcement of copyrights,
regardless of whether they are registered; to hold those found guilty
of infringement liable for compensation to the victims; and to allow
the seizure and destruction of counterfeit goods, equipment used to
make such goods, and property acquired with the profits from such
goods. The proposals would also make it a crime to "attempt to infringe
copyright." Groups such as the Business Software Alliance and the
Recording Industry Association of America welcomed the proposed changes
to copyright law, while those concerned about fair use rights expressed
reservations. An organization called Public Knowledge said in a statement
that it is "concerned that the Justice Department's proposal attempts
to enforce copyright law in ways it has never before been enforced."
CNET, 10 November 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5944612.html
NEW GROUP ADDRESSES OPEN SOURCE PATENT ISSUE
A new organization hopes to eliminate one of the major obstacles to
adoption of open source technology: concern over patent and royalty
disputes over shared code. The Open Invention Network (OIN), which
includes IBM, Sony, Royal Philips Electronics, and Linux distributors
Red Hat and Novell, will acquire and freely share patents that
organizers hope will encourage broader adoption of open source tools,
particularly Linux. Any organization that agrees not to assert its
patents over those who have licenses with OIN will be permitted to use
OIN patents for free. The business model for OIN represents a new
arrangement in which patents are shared to promote the underlying Linux
technology. Industry analyst Richard Doherty said, "A lot of lawyers
are going to throw their hands up and ask, 'How do we make money from
this?'" The answer, he said, is that they might not.
ZDNet, 10 November 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5943781.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"That's accurate," spoken by White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan, now restated in the official White House
transcripts as "I don't think that's accurate," when he
responded to the following:
"Whether there's a question of legality, we know for a fact
that there was involvement. We know that Karl Rove, based on
what he and his lawyer have said, did have a conversation
about somebody who Patrick Fitzgerald said was a covert
officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. We know that
Scooter Libby also had conversations."
Since then, the audio and video recordings of this have
been analyzed by the various media, and The Congressional
Quarterly and The Federal News Service have reported that
Mr. McClellan said, "That's accurate," refusing the White
House pressures to reverse their own transcripts.
White House press office spokeswoman Dana Perino answered
inquiries about the matter by saying, "the White House
stenographer was in the room and I was in the room" and
heard McClellan say `I don't think that's accurate.'"
Source: Editor & Publisher, Nov 9, 2005
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United States military officials at the Pentagon finally
admitted using white phosphorous as a weapon against soldiers
as opposed to its official use for lighting targets and also
providing smokescreens for other operations, after various
official denials. Lt. Col. Venable, a Pentagon spokesman
gave some details to the press, including white phosphorous
was used as an "incendiary weapon against enemy combatants."
It was also announced that the white phosphorous had been used
to drive soldiers out of their bunkers by setting fire to them
and via smoke inhalation, where they were then killed by a
variety of more conventional weapons. Many classify white
phosphorous as a chemical weapon when used against humans,
as it sticks to soldiers and will burn through to the bone,
also causing poisonous interactions with liver and kidneys.
Source: BBC News and Bahrain News Agency, quoting Radio London
Also, the Italian state 24 hours television news service
RAI24 aired a documentary alleging use of white phosphorous
in such a manner, and also in such an indiscriminate manner
as to include many civilians.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The whole white phosphorous issue will be ignored.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"The U.S. Embassy in Rome issued a statement criticizing the
documentary, saying any suggestion that U.S. forces used white
phosphorous or any chemical weapons against human targets was
simply wrong."
Source: Navy Times, Associated Press
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
***
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Mr. Postman
I'm longing for that particular letter
be it an i, an a, or an m
which would open only one door, and it would be enough
There, outside, the nose of the mountain would recognize the scent of myrrh
and frankincense
the waves of the sea would become stairs as he climbs.
I'm waiting for Mr. Postman
to knock on the door of this century
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