The world as a village of 100.

[O Town]

I recieved this as a foward and thought it was interesting.

THE WORLD AS A VILLAGE OF A HUNDRED

[wxmann_91]

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

[O Town]

Thank you, I usally snope everything but for some reason I didn't seem to question this one. Good call.

[coriolis]

I like the last lines in the snopes article:

Computer ownership rates in the USA now indicate that over 50% of American households have computers, so if we assume that "households" can be equated with "people" in our miniature world, our 5 Americans alone would have at least two computers between them.

On the other hand, if this is the kind of material having a computer gives one access to, the inhabitants of our miniature world just might opt to do without them.