<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 01:52, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img style="width:7.9166in;height:4.0625in" id="m_-3052994534369938471m_-5029240994664298596gmail-m_-2323694346796000512Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:17a51cfb6fb6917eb1" width="760" height="390"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Both of these have a kind of XKCD-ness to them, but Randall Monroe didn’t draw them. Clearly he is influential.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> _______________________________________________<br></p></div></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Quote:</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">We take more photos now than ever before. Growth in this segment is
explosive, with over 1.4 trillion photos taken last year, according to
InfoTrends. That's up from 1 trillion in 2017. Video is much the same,
with YouTube <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/with-over-1-billion-users-heres-how-youtube-is-keeping-pace-with-change.html" target="_blank">saying in recent years</a> that about 500 hours of video are uploaded to the platform <i>every minute</i>.</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">And STILL no decent photos of UFO spaceships or aliens waving 'Hi folks!'.</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Oh well, maybe the aliens aren't going to land and solve all our problems for us.<br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">BillK<br></div></div></div>