The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Smolan: Humanity is at the cusp of re-engineering the human species
“I mean, we're at the cusp of being able to re-engineer our species. This is the first time in human history we've ever been able to do this.”
In 2012, humanity generated five exabytes of data every two days
“All the information collected by the human race from the dawn of humanity in 2003 is five exabytes, whatever that is, because I'm not a data scientist, and now every two days we're generating five exabytes.”
Japan's sensor network stopped every bullet train 43 seconds before 2011 quake
“Every bullet chain And every factory in Japan stopped 43 seconds before the earthquake hit.”
Smolan: One third of drugs in Africa are counterfeit
“A third of the, ah, drugs in Africa today are counterfeit.”
Smolan's first photobook became a bestseller without being sold in bookstores
“The book became the number one book in Australia. It was never in a bookstore for the first year”
Modern daily information intake equals a 15th-century person's entire lifetime exposure
“The information that we're exposed to in the course of a day now is as much as somebody from the 15th century was exposed to in their entire lifetime.”