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I saw this at a a conference this week...pretty staggering stuff! I know it is anecdotal (most of it), but still interesting and worth the read.

If you are one in a million in China…there are 1,300 people just like you.

China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ’s…is greater than the total population of the United States

Translation: India has more honors kids than America has kids

The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010…did not exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist...

...using technologies that haven’t been invented…

...in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learners will have 10-14 jobs…by the age of 38

1 in 4 workers has been with the current employer for less than a year.

1 in 2 has been there less than five years.

1 out of 8 couples who got married in the U.S. last year met online.

There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace.

If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5^th-largest in the world (between Indonesia and Brazil)

The #1 ranked Country in broadband internet penetration is…Bermuda

#19 United States

#22 Japan

We are living in exponential times…

There are 31 billion searches on Google every month.

In 2006, this number was 2.7 billion.

To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)

The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992.

Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday, exceeds the total populations of the planet.

Years it took to reach an audience of 50 million…

…radio 38 years

…TV 13 years

…Internet 4 years

…iPod 3 years

…Facebook 2 years

The number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000

1992…1,000,000

2008…1,000,000,000

There are about 540,000 in the English language

About 5x as many as during Shakespeare’s time

It is estimated that a week’s worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18^th Century

It is estimated that 4 exabytes (4.0 x 10¹⁹) of unique information will be generated this year.

That is more than the previous 5,000 years

The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years

For a student starting a 4 year technical degree this means that…

…half of what they learned in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

NTT Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable…that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber…

…that is 2,660 CDs or 210 million phone calls every second.

It is currently tripling every six months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years.

By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain.

Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

While you were reading this…

…67 babies were born in the United States

…274 babies were born in China

…395 babies were born in India

…and 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally