The amount of knowledge human race has generated:

• Books, Texts:
It was estimated that there were about 100,000,000 books since Sumerian tablets.
There are 28,000,000 books in US congress library
24,000 texts are online
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
• Sound, Music:
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 records were ever released
18,000 free concerts on-line legally available, 700 bands
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php
• Movies:
Between 100,000 and 200,000 movies were ever made, a lot of them are Indian
300 movies already legally available on-line
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Video of lectures from MIT is being put on-line (Thanks to Benjamin Franklin)

• TV:
There are about 400 original channels
20 channels are being be archived 24x7, DVD quality - about 1 Petabyte, 1 week avilable
• Software:
About 50,000 software titles ever released
Some old software available on-line legally
• Web:

Net is about 15,000,000 web sites in only like 15 years.
Way back machine - largest database ever 100 hits/sec - 5 Petabytes storage


The "must hear" Brewster Kahle's of www.archive.org incredible talk

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail400.html

Universal Access to All Knowledge

What is your IQ? Data is taken from here: http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/IQBasics.html

IQ Range	Classification
140 and over	Genius or near genius
120-140	Very superior intelligence
110-120	Superior intelligence
90-110	Normal or average intelligence
80-90	Dullness
70-80	Borderline deficiency
Below 70	Definite feeble-mindedness

Graph drawn in Excel using the NORMDIST function.

Graph drawn in Excel using the NORMDIST function.

IQ Range	Classification
70-80	Borderline deficiency
50-69	Moron
20-49	Imbecile
below 20	Idiot

The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organised structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or "neurons" which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron makes something like a thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons and these points of contact are called synapses where exchange of information occurs. And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combinations of brain activity, in other words the numbers of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe.

Lecture 1 - Phantoms in the Brain
BBC R4 - The Emerging Mind ( Vilyanur Ramachandran -Reith 2003)

Got Calculator? Here are the bunch of interesting numbers So the total wealth of the world is about $70 trillion of dollars. (from a different source is about 100 trillion)

The age of the Universe is about 13.7 +- .2 billion years (as of 2003 - igor :)

Universe is 156 Billion Light-years Wide!

We see the Sun as it was about 8 minutes ago - it takes that long for light to travel the distance

If the population growth and the increase in a consumption of electricity continue at the current rates, by 2600 the world population will be standing shoulder to shoulder and electricity use will make the Earth glow red hot. If you stacked all the new books being published next to each other you would have to move at 90 miles per hour just to keep up with the end of the line. …

Steven Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell

Did you know that the average cost per defect(software) is…

* $10,000.00 (HP) up to $140,000.00 (IBM) if found in the production
* $750.00 to $3,000.00 (SEI) if found in the integration/system test
* $64.00 if found in the requirements phase
(According to a Borland newsletter)