Without you even noticing, everything you have ever done, am doing or will ever do is contributing to the a infinite cloud of data, spread across your lifetime and the many others that have occurred before you.
In this instance itself, you are reading this blog post of mine (which I will not hesitate to thank you for) and thus adding a number to my reader list. You are integrating your minute spent into the average time spent on the internet by teenagers (assuming you are one) in 2014. You are a percentage of your country's accessibility to internet connectivity. You are probably one of the many million people currently logged on the Facebook, slowly but very surely expanding Mark Zuckerberg's already very heavy pocket. The like you just added to that person's picture just increased his/her dependence on the internet for self-assurance by 0.005%. Possibly.
All this data is then transformed into graphs, charts and figures. Just like how Economists are able to determine the profit-maximising output level of a company by finding where the Marginal Cost curve hits the Marginal Revenue curve, it is possible for me to use that data to to plot a graph which gradient shows the increase in ego size, slowly getting steeper with every Twitter retweet and Instagram like (this is also inversely proportional to actual human interaction, which goes without saying), I would just need to (in theory) identify the factors and label the axis's accordingly.
Basically, all of human life exists in quantities (the number of breaths an average person takes in his lifetime, 8 cups of water a day, number of deleted drafts before a final product, $5.50 for the coffee thank you very much), although most of it goes unrecorded and thereby lost forever in the universe the moment after it passes. However, if we were able to somehow collect, catalogue and chart every single scrap of data that has ever existed, we would have all the secrets of the world in our hands. If we had the records to the number of tears shed every year, maybe we could find out what kind of global epidemic instills the most grief worldwide by seeing how many tears were shed in the year where this particular event happen. Although it might actually be the data for the amount of sad Marley and Me type movies produced in the year instead, which would be quite amusing. But I digress; I bet that all of life is connected in the weirdest and most random ways possible, we just have to know the right graphs to draw to find out how.
If a graph of nuclear decay is exponential then what does the graph of a decay of a culture/time look like? This is a terribly unromantic perception of the world: to turn people into demographics; life experiences into figures etc. but I am in love with the idea that there is a equation; a recipe to which everything is constructed by.
That would be cool
Weiann
That would be cool
Weiann
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