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Did you know?

• If you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you.
  • In India, there are 1100
• The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQs…is greater than the total population of North America
  • In India, it’s the top 28%
  • Translation for teachers: they have more honors kids than we have kids.
• China will soon become the number one English-speaking country in the world.
• If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China…it still would have a labor surplus.
• During the course of this presentation: 60 babies will be born in the US, 244 in China, 351 in India
• The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs…by age 38.
• According to the U.S. Department of Labor…1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company for whom they have been employed less than 1 year.
• More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years.
• According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley…the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
• We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…using technology that hasn’t yet been invented…in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
• Name this country…
  • Richest in the world
  • Largest military
  • Center of world business and finance
  • Strongest education system
  • World center of innovation and invention
  • Currency the world standard of value
  • Highest standard of living
  • ENGLAND
  • In 1900.
• The U.S. is 20^th in the world in broadband Internet penetration (Luxembourg just passed us).
• Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone.
  • The U.S. federal government spent less than half as much on research and innovation in education.
• 1 of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
• There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace (as of Sept 2006)
• If MySpace were a country, it would be the 11^th largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico).
• The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.
• We are living in exponential times.
• There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.
• To whom were these questions addressed B.G. (Before Google)?
• The number of text message sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
• There are about 540,000 words in the English language…about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.
• More than 3,000 new books are published…daily.
• It is estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times…contains more information that a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18^th century.
• It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10 to the 18^th) of unique information will be generated world wide this year.
• That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
• The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
• For students starting a four-year technical or college degree, this means that…half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
• It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.
• Third-generation fiber optics has recently been tested by both NEC and Alcatel…that pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.
  • That’s 1,900 CDs, or 150 million simultaneous phone calls, every second.
• It’s currently tripling about every 6 months is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.
• The fiber is already there. They’re just improving the switches on the ends, which means the marginal cost of these improvements I effectively $0.
• Predictions are that e=paper will be cheaper then real paper.
• 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.
• The $100 laptop project is expecting to shop between 50-100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.
• Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain.
• By 2023, when 1^st graders will be just 23 years old and beginning their (first) careers…
  • It will only take a $1,000 computer to exceed the capabilities of the human brain.
• And while technical predictions farther out than about 15 years are hard to make…
  • Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.
• What does it all mean?
  • Shift Happens.
• Now you know…

 

References and Credits:

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-you-know-20.html

 

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