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>The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent
by scw 18y ago
>The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 10,000 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.
He switched context from discussing the US-only consumption to total global television consumption. It seems worth thinking about the implications of this change even if the numbers are inaccurate.
- dejb 18y agoYes I agree it is useful to consider the rest of the world. However that was not the cause for the discrepancy and the numbers are still out by a factor of 100. If you think that 1% of global surplus attention could annually create 10000 wikipedias instead of 100 then you are likely to reach some very different conclusions. Maybe he switched context from 1% to 100% - that would make sense.
- scw 18y agoYou're completely right. To convince myself: trillion = 10**12 wikipedia = 10**8 surplus = trillion applied_surplus = surplus * 0.01 print applied_surplus / wikipedia which leaves us with only 100 wikipedias, as your numbers claimed.