Why are 19 of the World’s Top 100 Websites Google?
For those of you that haven’t seen it, this is an amazingly cool(and geeky!) watch:
Basically, instead of using hands and numbers to tell time, you simply count the number of lit-up segments. It looks very alien-like and futuristic. But the most wonderful thing about this watch is this: it transcends culture and knowledge. A child, or an alien without any prior knowledge of mathematics can easily learn to use this watch- “The day is divided into 24 parts. Each time one of these lights up, another part has passed”. This cross-cultural, obscure little watch raises a lot of thoughts about other technologies like, say, the Internet. Unlike this watch, the Internet is much more monocultural. Why are URLs all in English and not Unicode? Why are 19 of the world’s 100 most popular websites Google? Read more »
