Some figure you have to know

(Community : Believe it or Not)
Truth,

If you're 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.

India has more honors kids than America has kids.
The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010....did not exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist...using technologies that haven't been invented...
in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.
The US Department of Labor estimates that today's learner will have 10-14 jobs.....
by the age of 381 in 4 workers has been with their current employer for less than a year.
There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace.
If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world(between Indonesia and Brazil)
The #1 ranked country in Broadband Internet Penetration is .......
Bermuda
#19 The United States
#22 Japan

Did you know?
We are living in exponential times
There are 31 Billion searches on Google every month. In 2006, this number was 2.7 Billion.
To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)

The first commercial text message was sent in Dec 1882. Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday, exceeds the total population of the planet.

Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million,
The number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000
The number of internet devices in 1992 was 1,000,000
The number of internet devices in 2008 was 1,000,000,000

There are about 540,000 words in the English language, about 5X as many as during Shakespeare's time.

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half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computatiopnal capabilities of the human brain.
Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human specie.