Did You Know?

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 honor kids than America has kids

The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010
Did not exist in 2004

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

1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer for less than a year
1 in 2 has been there less than five years

1 out of every 8 couples 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 5th largest in the world

The #1 ranked country in Broadband Internet Penetration is
Bermuda
#19 The United States
#22 Japan

There are 31 billion searches on Google every month
In 2006, this number was 2.7 billion
To whom were these questions addressed before Google?

The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992
Today, the number of text messages sent and received every day, exceeds the total population of the planet

Years it took to reach a market 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
In 1992 it was 1,000,000
In 2008 it was 1,000,000,000
There are about 540,000 words in the English language
About 5x as many as during Shakespeare’s time

The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years
For students starting a 4 year technical degree this means that
Half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study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 CD’s 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

In the time it took you to read this
67 babies were born in the U.S.
274 babies were born in China
395 babies were born in India
694,000 songs were downloaded illegally