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All That Fame

How can we fit in all that fame?

“In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” – Andy Warhol

I thought to myself, “Is it possible for everyone to see everyone else’s fifteen minutes of fame?” The answer is clearly no. There are only 35 063 fifteen minute intervals in a year (on average). To see everyone (all 6 528 051 823 of us) currently on Earth’s fifteen minute would take almost 186 181 years. Even limiting your fame to just the USA (300 921 905) still takes 8 582 years. With the life expectancy of 75 plus years the most fame that you could possibly witness is 2 670 225. Once you take into account working, eating, sleeping, daydreaming and duplicate fame viewings, I have to conclude that the audience for all these fifteen minutes of fame is going to be rather small. A realistic number of fame views per person per day would be about 4. That adds up to 102 267 fame viewings in a lifetime, which puts the average audience for each fame viewing world wide at 63 833 and 2 942 in just the USA.
~ written by Greg

I totally agree with Greg. What is going on? Everyone is trying to get their fifteen minutes of fame. Something easier to get done is that you may get famous in your close inner circle than the globe I guess. I found his study very interesting and wanted to share it with you all.