Did You Know?

By Karl Fisch

(Edited with author’s permission.)

Sometimes sizedoes matter.

If you’re one in amillion in China . . .

there are 1,300 people just like you.

In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.

The 25% of thepopulation in Chinawith the highest IQ’s . . .

is greater thanthe total populationof North America.

In India, it’sthe top 28%.

Did you know?

China will soon becomethe number one English-speaking country in theworld.

If you took everysingle job in the U.S.today and shipped itto China . . .

China would still havea labor surplus.

During the course ofthis presentation . . .

• 60 babies will be born in the U.S.

• 244 babies will be born in China.

• 351 babies will be born in India.

The U.S. Department ofLabor estimates thattoday’s learner will have10-14 jobs . . .

by age 38.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .

1 out of 4 workers today is working for a companyfor whom they have been employed less than 1 year.

More than 1 out of 2are working for acompany for whomthey have workedless than 5 years.

According to formerSecretary of EducationRichard Riley . . .

the top 10 jobs thatwill be in demandin 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

We are currentlypreparing studentsfor jobs thatdon’t yet exist . . .

using technologiesthat haven’t yetbeen invented . . .

in order to solveproblems we don’teven know areproblems 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.

Did you know?

The U.S. is 20th

in the world inbroadband Internetpenetration.(recently passed by Luxembourg)

Nintendo invested morethan $140 million inresearch and developmentin 2002 alone.

The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half asmuch on research and innovation in education.

1 out of every 8 couplesmarried in the U.S. lastyear met online.

There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace.(as of September 2006)

If MySpace were a country,it would be the 11th-largestin the world (betweenJapan and Mexico)

The average MySpacepage is visited 30 times a day.

Did you know?

We are living in exponential times.

There are over 2.7 billion searches performed onGoogle each month.

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

The number of textmessages sent andreceived every dayexceeds the populationof the planet.

There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .

about 5 times asmany as duringShakespeare’s time.

More than 3,000new books arepublished . . .

daily.

It’s estimated thata week’s worth ofNew York Times . . .

contains more informationthan a person was likelyto come across in alifetime in the 18th century.

It is estimated that1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 1018)of unique new informationwill be generatedworldwide this year.

(That’s over 1.6 billion gigabytes)

That’s estimated to bemore than in theprevious 5,000 years.

The amount of newtechnical information isdoubling every 2 years.

For students starting afour-year technical orcollege degree, thismeans that…

half of what they learnin their first year of studywill be outdated by theirthird year of study.

It is predicted todouble every 72 hoursby 2010.

Third generation fiber opticshas recently been tested byboth NEC and Alcatel . . .

that pushes 10 trillionbits per second downone strand of fiber.

That’s 1,900 CDs, or 150million simultaneous phonecalls, every second.

It is currently tripling about every 6 months and isexpected to do so forat least the next 20 years.

The fiber is already there.They are just improving the switches on the ends. Which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively $0.

Predictions are thatelectronic paper will becheaper than real paper.

47 million laptopswere shipped worldwidelast year.

The $100 laptop projectis expecting to ship between50 and 100 million laptopsa year to children in underdeveloped countries.

Predictions are thatby 2013 a supercomputerwill be built that exceedsthe computation capabilityof the human brain.

By 2023, when 1st-graderswill be just 23 years oldand beginning their(first) careers…

it only will take a $1,000 computer to exceed the computation capabilitiesof the human brain.

And while technicalpredictions farther outthan about 15 yearsare hard to make . . .

Predictions are thatby 2049 a $1,000 computerwill exceed thecomputational capabilitiesof the human race.

What does it all mean?

Shift Happens

Now you know . . .