Sharing in the Information Age | StarTalk

welcome back from Manhattan New York
City North America Western Hemisphere
earth solar system
Sagittarius arm Milky Way galaxy
next local group Virgo supercluster
the universe and we don’t yet have a
coordinate within the multiverse we’re
working on that so my friend Bill Nye he
moved to town he started in Seattle went
to LA but he’s a New Yorker now and he’s
loving it and he sends in these
dispatches from around town he has some
thoughts about sharing in the
information age as we knew he would
check it out
when it comes to sharing information
humans are in a class by themselves
I mean sure a dog may walk up to a tree
and take a pee to let other dogs know
that it’s his territory coyotes may how
to communicate monkeys may screech to
let other monkeys in the barrel know
that there’s a predator in their body
where a whale could swim real fast and
breech up out of the sea and flop back
down with a raping splash and a great
big sound but humans humans we share all
kinds of information with everybody all
the time we use these big wide thin
sheets but the best you can do with a
piece of paper is sort of last night’s
news now we get news 24/7 every day we
can share information in a flash at the
speed of light all over the world that
is as long as you got one of these and
you’re connected
is there Wi-Fi here it’s no Wi-Fi