Only 100 in the Village

I loved this unique way to look at the world when it first came out and now the info appears to have been reviewed and verified. It sure gives you a different perspective when you think about the world as a village of only 100. What do you think?

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:

60 Asians
12 Europeans
8 Latin Americans/Carribeans
5 North Americans
1 Oceanian
14 Africans

50 would be female
50 would be male

73 would be non-white
27 would be white

27 would be 0-14 years old
65 would be between 15-64 years old
7 would be older than 65

33 would be Christian
20 would be Muslim
14 would be other religions
13 would be Hindus
12 would be non-religious or agnostics
6 would be Buddhists
2 would be atheists

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Can You Go Without for One Day?

It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we in church-land be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if everyone participates! Shutdown your computer on March 24th and find out!    I am interested in all the pastors and church staff out there……Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer? or have you become addicted to email, calendars, etc……

Vote YES or NO here.

Leave us a comment — let us know here if you and your church staff can turn off the technology for one day.

The Shutdown Day idea started because the founders were worried about how much time everyone spends on computers and how little time is left these days for the other things in life. It has developed into an international event, a global experiment…Be a part of it, Shutdown Day, March 24th 2007

(right now the voting is 88% of folks say they can go 24 hours without using their computer…..How about you?)

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Future Web: What is eBay Focused On?

As church technology evolves, we need to look to bellwether representatives to see where technology (specifically the internet) is headed. Recently, Max Mancini, the recently appointed senior director of platform and innovation at eBay, spoke to IDG News Service about where eBay is devoting a majority of time and resources over the next 12-18 months. I love the name of one of the groups he heads — it is called the Disruptive Innovation team, which was started last year.

eBay started with innovating around consumer-to-consumer commerce and the auction format online, then progressed just to keep up from scale and growth perspectives, with its main focus on scalability, performance and [Read more...]

Warehouse Church in Chicago!

Park Community Church is building the country’s coolest church in a dry goods warehouse on the near northside of Chicago. With more than 90,000 sq ft, this first permanent home for the church allows them to stop renting after 19 years in the city.

Check out the photos and building renderings at Worship Facilities Media.

Future Web — A Glimpse

Google, YouTube, Social Networking, AI, Web 2.0. Web 3.0….Where in the world are we going with the Internet?

One of the most important figures in the Web’s history provided members of Congress with a glimpse into the future of technology. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, spoke about his experience, his views, and his vision of the future during a congressional subcommittee hearing Thursday. The hearing, entitled “The Future of the World Wide Web,” is the first in a series on the “Digital Future of the United States.”

Berners-Lee — whom TIME Magazine listed, with Albert Einstein, as one of the most important people of the 20th Century — spent hours Thursday publicly explaining how the Internet and the World Wide Web came about, how they work, what their potential is and what must be done to make sure they reach it. Check out his audio/video remarks here.

An Extra Month of Daylight Savings

In August of 2005, the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March – March 11 in 2007) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally occurred.

Why do we do this? One of the biggest reasons we change our clocks to Daylight Saving Time (DST) is that [Read more...]