Remember the “Did you Know” video?

Heres the facts in text (took a while to type ;) )

Did you know?
If your one in a million in China: There are 1,300 people just like you
China will soon become the number one english speaking contry in the world.
The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ’s is greater then the total population of the United States - India has more honors kids then the United States HAS kids

The Top-10 in demand jobs in 2008 did not exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that dont yet exist…using technologies that haven’t been invented…in order to solve problems we dont even know are problems yet.

The U.S. Department of labor estimates that todays lerner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38

1 in 4 workers has been with their current emplyer for less than a year. 1 in 2 has been there less than 5 years

1 out of 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.

There are 31 billion searches on google every month…In 2006 this number was 2.1 billion

The first comercial text message was sent in December of 1992. Today the number of text messages sent and recieved everyday exceeds the amount of the population on earth.

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


It is estimated that a weeks 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 4 exabytes (4.0x10^19 [ 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 ] ) of uique information will be generated this year.

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.