Did You Know

Posted by David Brensilber at 4/9/2007 10:29 AM
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I am a fan of the Karl Fisch's Did You Know presentation (http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html).  In his powerpoint presentation, he tracks the growth of China and India and how our economy is changing the job picture. I have included the text of his presentation below.

One of the more interesting statements is that "the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004."

The implication is that unless you keep up with the changes that are going around in our society (both here in the US and worldwide), you will be left behind. So in effect, we have to continue to learn and acquire more skills if we want to keep up with these changes. This means continuing education and other forms of training.

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 is greater than the total population of North American

In India, it’s the top 28%.

Translation for teachers:

They have more honors kids than we have kids.

China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

If you took every single job in the US today and shipped it to China, China would still have a labor surplus.

During the course of this 8 minute presentation...

60 babies will be born in the US

244 babies will be born in

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. is 20 in the world in broadband Internet penetration.
Luxembourg just passed us.

In 2002 alone Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development.

The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education.

1 out of every 8 couples married in the US .

There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace.(August 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 a day.

Did you know

We are living in exponential times.

There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.

To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?
(Before Google)

The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

There are about 540,000 words in the English language

About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

More than 3,000 new books are published

Daily.

It’s 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 18 century.

It’s estimated that 40 exabytes (that’s 4.0 x 10(19)) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

Third generation fiber optics has recently been separately tested by NEC and Alcatel

That pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.

That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.

It’s 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’re just improving the switches on the ends. Which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively $0.

Predictions are that e-paper will 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 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the Human Brain

First grader Abby will be just 23 years old and beginning her (first) career

And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years are hard to do

Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.

What does it all mean?


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