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Tom Whitwell har i efterhånden mange år publiceret en liste med 52 sjove, sære, spændende, overraskende, nyttige eller frygtelige fakta han har lært i løbet af det forgangne år.
Således også her op mod årsskiftet 2022.
Jeg har udvalgt en håndfuld af mine favoritter fra Toms udvalg, og ellers kan den fulde liste findes her.
A ‘zhènlóuqì’ is an electrical floor shaker sold on Taobao, used to get revenge on noisy neighbours.
Heavenbanning is a hypothetical way to moderate social networks. Instead of being thrown off the platform, bad actors have all their followers replaced with sycophantic AI models that constantly agree and praise them. Real humans never interact with them.
37 per cent of the world’s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet. [International Telecommunication Union]
40% of global shipping involves moving fossil and other fuels (oil, gas, wood pellets) around. More renewables (solar, wind, nuclear, geo), means fewer ships.
The creators of Sim City had a problem with car parking: “We realised there were way too many parking lots in the real world. Our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.”