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Change, Change, Change |
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| We all have a sense that the world is changing rapidly, even exponentially. Here are some statistics and predictions that underscore just how dramatic this change is. • China will soon be the number one English-speaking country in the world. • If you took every singe job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China, they'd still have a labor surplus. • The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today's learner will have 10 to 14 jobs … by age 38. • One of every four workers in the U.S. is working for a company where he/she has been employed less than one year. More than half of us are working for a company where we've been employed less than 5 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. • The U.S. is 15th in the world in penetration of broadband connections as of December 2006. Denmark, Iceland, Korea, and Luxembourg are ahead of us. • One of every nine couples married last year met online. • There are 2.7 billion searches on Google each month. • There are about 540,000 words in the English language, about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare's time. • More than 3,000 books are published … daily. • 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 19 th century. • It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year … more than in the previous 5,000 years. • The amount of new technical info is doubling every 2 years. • For students starting a 4-year technical or college degree, this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.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, the amount of new technical information is predicted to double every 72 hours. • Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain. • By 2023, when today's 1st graders will be 23, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the human brain.
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