{"id":6566,"date":"2017-01-18T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2017-01-18T18:32:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:32:15","slug":"linked-how-many-famous-people-will-die-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/linked-how-many-famous-people-will-die-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;How Many Famous People Will Die IN 2017?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3577,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/macro.media.mit.edu\\\/2017&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20201206224657\\\/https:\\\/\\\/macro.media.mit.edu\\\/2017\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 04:41:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 00:55:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 15:46:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 00:12:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 17:21:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 08:31:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 14:44:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:43:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 19:17:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 19:17:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macro.media.mit.edu\/2017\/\">via MIT.Edu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Many people think that 2016 was particularly bad, but data tells us that it is not an exception. In fact, we should expect more famous people to die in 2017 than in 2016. Why? The answer is simple: because the number of famous people has increased over time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of course there are a few caveats you may be considering, such as: who qualifies as famous? Or, is the increasing number of famous people just a consequence of global population growth?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Toward the end of 2016, I started hearing people say that 2016 was a bad year. Resounding cries out to the heavens that 2016 sucked. Was it that bad? When I asked people why they thought that, they mostly just referenced celebrity deaths and that\u2019s where I got the suspicion that this was all just some Facebook echo-chamber where people all agreed unanimously that 2016 sucked sort of out of nowhere. At least that\u2019s how I proceeded it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, some researchers at MIT did the math and they confirmed something that I immediately jumped to the assumption when people were indicating that more celebrities than ever died in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Yes but only because there are now more celebrities than ever. From YouTubers to Tech CEOs to actors, reality TV stars and indie musicians. the amount of media outlets in the world is much larger than it was 20 years ago when you had Models, Film, Music, Television and way behind in notoriety, business people. We live in the Information age where there are more outlets to be famous in and more exposure of these people to become more famous thanks to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of famous people that die from now on will only increase especially when the boomer population is also at an age where if you partied hard, your life will soon come to an end. The actors who did a lot of hard drugs in the 80s are going to die soon (statistically speaking). Keep it in perspective that more deaths than ever of people you know that are celebrities will die each subsequent year going forward until the millennials are in their 80s. Why will it drop when millennial grow older? While we have more celebrities due to YouTube and Internet-fame, those are \u201915 minute fame\u2019 people who won\u2019t be in the spotlight in 10 years. More importantly, millennial have less sex, do less drugs and have less children than ever before. The early death and population boom will be much lower in 50 years. (just a hunch).<\/p>\n<p>As for this writer, 2016 was an amazing year. I had a blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via MIT.Edu: Many people think that 2016 was particularly bad, but data tells us that it is not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1HU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5331,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/linked-get-rich-or-die-vlogging-the-sad-economics-of-internet-fame\/","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Fusion.net: The high highs and low lows leave me reeling. One week, I was stopped for photos six times while perusing comic books in downtown LA. The next week, I sat faceless in a room of 40 people vying for a menial courier job. I\u2019ve walked a red carpet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5870,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/linked-your-move-apple\/","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Your Move, Apple&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: It feels like it\u2019s 2001. Tons of companies had released tons of MP3 players, and they all sucked. The iPod was just months away. But it\u2019s 2016, and instead we\u2019re drowning in smarthome gadgets, most recently the voice-powered Amazon Echo and whatever Google Home is. Soon, Apple will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6576,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/linked-the-evolution-of-apples-laptops-from-the-powerbook-to-the-macbook-pro\/","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The evolution of Apple&#8217;s laptops, from the PowerBook to the MacBook Pro&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Macworld Online: Great job by Jason talking us on a walk down memory lane. I\u2019ve owned every PowerBook \/ MacBook since the G3 Pismo. I have not yet owned a Retina MacBook (2015\/2016) but I am pretty sure I will one day if I start traveling more than I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5514,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/linked-tim-cook-on-encryption\/","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":3},"title":"Linked: Tim Cook on Encryption","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Apple.com: The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers \u2014 including tens of millions of American citizens \u2014 from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals. The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect our users\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5655,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/linked-why-dont-i-know-any-single-men\/","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Why don\u2019t I know any single men?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Philip Greenspun's Weblog: From the point of view of having the children that they want prior to the exhaustion of their fertility and from the point of view of financial security, these women would have been better off spending their 18-22-year-old years having sex with married men rather than attending\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6580,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/linked-redesigning-waxy-2016-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Waxy: But there a few reasons why I\u2019m sad about the decline of independent blogging, and why I think they\u2019re still worth fighting for. Ultimately, it comes down to two things: ownership and control. This was a fantastic read. I am trying to strike a balance on this blog.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}