Zombies are everywhere these days.

Here is an interesting idea. Humans respond best to messages conveyed through humans communicating as in real life i.e. with the sound, expressions, personality, tonality, accent, passion and all other parts conveyed when another human speaks in front of us. Video is the best medium we have at capturing these, and the ability of the internet to serve video to everyone is changing the way people influence each other.

The invention of printing replaced humans in spreading ideas because it was possible to multiply a message. Messages spread through writing became influential because they reached a larger audience faster.

Chris Anderson believes that online video is the medium by which any idea can be communicated, not only those that are communicated well in writing. Dancing, music, acting, scientific experiments, cooking and so many other ideas can be conveyed easily from the best and inspire people to become even better.

This is a powerful idea. We may be witnessing a revolution in the speed by which progress can be made, made possible by online video.

The title says it all. It took me too long to guess the transformation - see if you can.

Fascinating talk on the evolution of computer viruses by the head of research in Symantec. People can sell infected computers to other people these days, all through the internet! Great showmanship too.

Great infographic based on the location and date information of events of Wikipedia.

A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo.

Great TED talk on how we experience the world.

In the speaker's example, would we choose to take the same vacation if we knew that afterwards all photos and any memories of it would be destroyed?

The difference in the vacation chosen when we know we will have memories of it, and when we know we will just experience the present as it passes, shows the contrast between the experiencing and the remembering self.

The implications to human happiness are worth reflecting upon.

In particular, goals and money seem to satisfy the remembering self while spending time with people we like satisfies the experiencing self.