Did You Know?

This video was made in 2008, so some of these facts may already be true. It's a list of different facts about the world, a lot of focus on technology. It really is crazy stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

Research by: Karl Fisch, Scott McLood, Jeff Bronman

For those who don't want to watch the video:

Facts

- If you're one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you.

- China will soon become the number 1 English speaking country in the world.

- The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is greater than the total population of the United States. This means India has more "honours" kids than the US has kids.

- The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn't exist in 2004.

- We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that have not yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.

- The U.S department of labor estimates that today's learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38.

- 1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer 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 (between Indonesia and Brazil).

- The #1 ranked country in Broadband Internet Penetration is Bermuda. The U.S is 19th, and Japan is 22nd.

- We are living in exponential times. There are 31 billion searches on Google each month. In 2006, this number was 2.7 billion.

- The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992. 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;
- Radio 38 years
- TV 13 years
- Internet 4 years
- iPod 3 years
- Facebook 2 years

- The number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000. The number of internet devices was 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.

- 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 4 exabytes (4.0x10^19) of unique information will be generated this year. That is more than the previous 5,000 years.

- The amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a 4 year technical degree this means that half of what they study will be outdated by their third year of study. (That's me screwed)

- NTT Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable that pushes 14 trillion bites per second down a single strand of fiber. That is 2,660 CDs or 210 million phone calls every second. It is currently tripling every six months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years.

- By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain. Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. (Not sure of this one, I haven't researched it.)

- During the 4.56 video on YouTube, 67 babies were born in the U.S. 274 babies were born in China, and 395 babies were born in India. 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.