Did you know...
That in the next eight seconds, 34 babies will be born.
What will the world be like for them...?
Did you know...
How many 2006 college graduates in India speak English?
→ All of them...
Did you know...
According to U.S. Department of Labor, one in four workers has been with their current employer less than one year.
One in two workers has been with their current employer less than five years.
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today's learners will have 10 to 14 jobs by their 38th birthday.
Many of today's college majors didn't exist 10 years ago...
“New media”
“Organic agriculture”
“e-business”
“Nanotechnology”
“Homeland security”
What will they study 10 years from now...?
Did you know...
Today's 21-year-olds have:
watched 20,000 hours of TV,
played 10,000 hours of video games,
talked 10,000 hours on the phone,
and sent/received 250,000 emails or instant messages
More than 50% of U.S 21-year-olds have created content on the web. More than 70% of U.S. 4-year-olds have used a computer.
Did you know...
How many years Radio, Television, and Internet took to reach a market audience of 50 million?
Radio → 38 years
TV → 13 years
Internet → 4 years
Number of Internet devices in:
1984: 1,000
1992: 1,000,000
2006: 600,000,000
Did you know...
We are living in exponential times...
The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992.
The number of text messages sent and received today exceeds the population of the planet.
The Internet started being widely used by the general public in early 1995.
1 out of 8 couples married in the US in 2005 met online.
Revenue for eBay in 2006: $6,000,000,000
eBay was founded in 1996...
There are more than 2,700,000,000 searches performed on Google this month...
MySpace was founded in 2003. The 100 millionth account was created on August 2006.
And the site attracts 230,000 new users per day. If MySpace were a country, it would be the 8th largest in the world...
YouTube was activated in 2005. In August 2006 YouTube was hosting about 6.1 million videos. April 2008, a YouTube search returns about 83.4 million videos and 3.75 million user channels.
Did you know...
There are more than 540,000 words in the English language. That is about five times as many as during Shakespeare's time.
More than 3,000 books were published today. The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. And by 2010 it's predicted to double every 72 hours.
Third generation fiber optics has recently been tested that push 10 trillion bits per second down a fiber.. That equals 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second...
And it's currently tripling every six months..
The fiber is already there, they're just improving the switches on the end, which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively zero...
Do you know what does this all mean?
Students are now being prepare for jobs and technologies that don't yet exist, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet..
Source: shifthappens.wikispaces.com
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