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> Food for thought. Did you ever wonder why it is harder and harder > to keep up with the times? > > Watch this video > http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift -- Owen |
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TRANSCRIPT of "SHIFT HAPPENS" from http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift
Shift Happens - DID YOU KNOW Sometimes size does matter If you're one in a million in China... ...there are 1,300 people just like you In India there are 1,100 people just like you The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ's... ...is greater than the total population of North America. In India, it's 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 course of this 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 US Department of Labor estimates that today's learner will have 10 to 14 jobs .by age 38 According to the US Department of Labor.. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year. More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than five years. According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley... ...the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn't 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. 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. ranks 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration (Luxembourg just passed us) In 2002 Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone. The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education. 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 were 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 DID YOU KNOW We are living in exponential time. There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month To whom were these questions addressed before B.G.? (Before Google) The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet There are about 540,000 words in the English language... about 5X as many as during Shakespeare's time. More than 3,000 new books are published daily. It is estimated that a week's worth of 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 40 exabytes (1.5X1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That is more than in the previous 5,000 years. The new 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. It is predicted to double every 72 hours in 2010 Third generation fiber optics have recently been separately tested by NEC and Alcatel... ...that pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber. That is 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second. It is currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at 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 that e-paper will eventually be cheaper than real paper. 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year. The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries. Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain. By 2013, when 1st graders will be just 23 years old and beginning their (first) careers.. It will take a $1,000 computer to exceed the capabilities of the human brain. And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years are hard to make... predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race. So, what does it all mean? Shift Happens NOW YOU KNOW -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 9:33 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Shift Happens From a friend: > Food for thought. Did you ever wonder why it is harder and harder > to keep up with the times? > > Watch this video > http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20070529/70c24044/attachment-0001.html |
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