yesterday was the day where a new episode in history begun. the u.s.a has a new president. barack obama he has a great speech at his inauguration and i believe he know something we all also know. i have done a search in the internet with statements on different websites that are covering our situation..
did you know?
sometimes size does matter
if you’re one in a million in china..
.. there are 1300 people just like you
in india there are 1100 people just like you
the top 25% of the population in china with the highest iq’s..
is greater than the total population of north america
in india, its the top 28%
translation: they have more honors kids than we have kids
did you know?
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..
.. china would still have a labor surplus
during the time you read this
60 babies will be born in the u.s.
244 babies will be born in china
351 babies will be born in india
the department of labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs.. by the age of 38
1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed for less than one year
more than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for less than 5 years
according to former secretary of education richard riley..
..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
pop quiz: name this country..
richest in the world
largest military
center of the world business and finance
strongest education system
world center of inovation and invention
currency the world standard of value
highest standard of living
it was england in 1900
did you know?
1 out of 8 couples married in the u.s. last year met online
there are over 106 million registered users of myspace (as of september 2006)
if myspace where a country it would be the 11th-largest in the world (between japan and mexico)
the average myspace page is visited 30 times per day
there are over 2.7. billion searches performed on google each month
and whom were these questions addressed before google?
the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet
there are about 540000 words in the english language.. about 5x as many as during shakespeare’s time
more than 3000 new books are published every day
if 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 18th century.
it is estimated that 40exabytes (4.0 x 1019) of unique information will be generated worldwide this year.
that is more than in the previous 5000 years
the amount of 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..
by 2010 it is predicted to double every 72 hours
third generation fiberoptics have recently been separately tested by nec and alcatel..
.. that carry 10 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber.
that is 1900 cds or 150 million phonecalls every second
is currently tripling every 6 months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years
predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain
and while technical predictions further out than about 15years are hard to do..
predictions are that by 2049 a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species
so what does it all mean?
shift happens
now you know!!
