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"FRIENDSTER was really the first modern, general social network. Founded in 2002, Friendster is still a very active social network, with over 90 million registered users and 60+ million unique visitors each month. Most of Friendster’s traffic comes from Asia (90% of it)." https://lnkd.in/gJ_sWNx View in LinkedIn

ON SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. "Much work on technological change agrees that the recombination of new and existing technological capabilities is one of the principal sources of technological novelty." As analyzed by patent code evolution. https://lnkd.in/dp-phxx View in LinkedIn

CHANGING BEHAVIORS. "Globally, time spent on social networking sites has surpassed time spent in email...and the number of social networking users surpassed the number of email users in July 2009." https://lnkd.in/dsHe6fk View in LinkedIn

RATE OF CHANGE. "There is a popular video on YouTube which assesses the rate of change in contemporary society, and illustrates beyond all doubt how this change is growing exponentially. The video particularly notes that the take up of social media has been extremely rapid in comparison to similar technologies." https://lnkd.in/dffrpRZ View in LinkedIn

READ CAREFULLY. "Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries." This is unique in our planet. https://lnkd.in/gJ_sWNx View in LinkedIn

THE FIRST OBSERVATIONS. “Of the many unconformities (gaps) observed in geological strata, the term Great Unconformity is applied to either the unconformity observed by James Hutton in 1787 at Siccar Point in Scotland, or that observed by John Wesley Powell in the Grand Canyon in 1869. Both instances are exceptional examples of where the contacts between sedimentary strata and either sedimentary or crystalline strata of greatly different ages, origins, and structure represent periods of geologic time sufficiently long to raise great mountains and then erode them away.” https://lnkd.in/djabPdZ View in LinkedIn

DARWIN’S PROBLEM. “The apparent absence of a fossil record prior to the appearance of trilobites in the Cambrian famously troubled Darwin. He wrote in On the Origin of Species that if his theory of evolution were true “it is indisputable that before the lowest [Cambrian] stratum was deposited … the world swarmed with living creatures.” Furthermore, he could give “no satisfactory answer” as to why older fossiliferous deposits had not been found.” https://lnkd.in/d8SyHX7 View in LinkedIn

THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY seems to have occurred in north and south America, India and China, at the very least, in the same time period. It resulted in enormous quantities of the sedimentary rocks being dumped into the world’s oceans and sucked into subduction zones to be recycled in the Earth’s core, taking with it fossil records that are usually laid down as an orderly permanent record. No other event in Earth’s history was of such an enormous scale, excepting the period of extreme meteorite bombardment. View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a part of Earth’s violent history called the Great Unconformity. This wax the pre-Cambrian period when 3-5 VERTICAL KILOMETERS got erased from the surface of the globe. Geologists argue whether it was due to the persistent glaciation of Snowball Earth, or whether then melting ice caused a massive flood, or a combination of both. Either way, it single-handedly could explain the missing fossil history and the otherwise inexplicable Cambrian explosion. It seems that this truly epic story has been buried in obtuse geology writings and that biologists have paid it scant attention. View in LinkedIn

FINAL PRODUCT? "Considering that Homo Sapiens is a very, very recent invention in biological evolution, we as humans are naive if we believe we are the end product of evolution. I’m sure we are not. So there's certainly something to think about. It’s likely that we’ll help create the next major evolutionary step." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn