Sometimes you get wrapped up in a bubble and feel like the world is pretty small, and I find that pretty comforting. It gives me a feeling of being in control. A common example of this is running into an old friend or acquaintance a couple of times in a row, and thinking "Hey, it's a small world!".
But what about the times when the world felt really big? What gave you the feeling that the world is actually insanely big? The internet is obviously huge, and we use it every day, but most of us probably only surf a few select sites, and it's hard to actually get a sense of its scale. It's one thing to know that there are almost 8 billion people in the world doing things, but it's such an insane amount that it's hard for me to wrap my head around it, and actually get a sense of it.
My example is when I came across some sort of research site, with seemingly hundreds of thousands of documents about specific subjects. I don't remember exactly what the site was, but it was something like this, https://www.epo.org/index.html but with a directory of sorts that really gave me a sense of the absurd size of it.
It just made the world feel so big. Like, there are fields of study and interest that people have written about and researched for hundreds of thousands of hours that I don't know anything about.
It can be also be pretty jarring (But awesome!) when I come across a great game or movie that is well known, yet I had never even heard about it before.
So, do you have any examples like this?
But what about the times when the world felt really big? What gave you the feeling that the world is actually insanely big? The internet is obviously huge, and we use it every day, but most of us probably only surf a few select sites, and it's hard to actually get a sense of its scale. It's one thing to know that there are almost 8 billion people in the world doing things, but it's such an insane amount that it's hard for me to wrap my head around it, and actually get a sense of it.
My example is when I came across some sort of research site, with seemingly hundreds of thousands of documents about specific subjects. I don't remember exactly what the site was, but it was something like this, https://www.epo.org/index.html but with a directory of sorts that really gave me a sense of the absurd size of it.
It just made the world feel so big. Like, there are fields of study and interest that people have written about and researched for hundreds of thousands of hours that I don't know anything about.
It can be also be pretty jarring (But awesome!) when I come across a great game or movie that is well known, yet I had never even heard about it before.
So, do you have any examples like this?
