The document discusses trends related to population growth in China and India, the rise of digital technologies and their impact on society, and predictions about the future of computing power and its implications. It notes that the top 25% of China's population by IQ exceeds the total population of North America, and that China will soon become the largest English speaking country. It also discusses the exponential growth of technologies like broadband internet, search engines, social media, and computing power, and how this will challenge traditional education and career models.

1. Did you know?

2. Sometimes size does matter.

3. If you’re one in a million in China...

4. there are 1,300 people just like you.

5. In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.

6. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQs ...

7. is greater than the total population of North America.

8. In India, it’s the top 28% .

9. than we have kids . Translation for teachers: they have more honors kids

10. Did you know?

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

12. If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China...

13. it still would have a labor surplus .

14. During the course of this presentation...

16. According to the U.S. Department of Labor...

17. 1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer less than 1 year

18. 1 in 2 workers has been with their current employer less than 5 years

19. today’s students will have 10 to 14 jobs … by their 38 th birthday

20. don’t even exist today . and the top 10 jobs in demand six years from now

21. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist ...

22. using technologies that haven’t yet been invented ...

23. in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet .

24. Name this country...

26. England

27. in 1900 .

28. Did you know?

29. The U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration (Luxembourg just passed us).

30. 1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online .

31. There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace (as of September 2006)

32. More than 230,000 new users signed up for MySpace today .

33. If MySpace were a country… it would be the 8th-largest in the world (larger than Russia)

34. The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

35. YouTube visitors watch over 100 million videos… per day .

36. Last year’s U.S. sales of music CDs exceeded 500 million , a 10% decline from the previous year.

37. During the same period, sales of digital music tracks downloaded from the web were up 45% to 844 million .

38. Did you know?

39. We are living in exponential times.

40. There were more than 2.7 billion searches performed on Google… this month .

41. To whom were these questions directed B.G.? (before Google) ?

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

43. There are about 540,000 words in the English language...

44. 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

45. More than 3,000 new books were published… today .

46. It is estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times ...

47. contains more information than a person was likely to come across in an entire lifetime in the 18th century.

48. It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10 18 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

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

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

51. For students starting a four-year technical or college degree, this means that...

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

53. By 2010, it is predicted to double every… 72 hours

54. Third-generation fiber optics has been tested

55. that pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one fiber.

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

57. And it’s currently tripling every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years .

58. The fiber is already there, they’re just improving the switches on the ends…

59. which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively $0 .

60. The technology exists today to create e-paper , a flat, flexible, electronic surface that mimics real paper and ink, and is predicted to become cheaper than real paper.

61. Over 260 million PCs were shipped worldwide last year…

62. including over 72 million laptops .

63. The One Laptop Per Child Project is expecting to ship between 50 to 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries at a cost of around $200 / laptop .

64. Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain.

65. By 2023, when today’s 1st-graders begin their (first) careers...

66. it only will take a $1,000 computer to exceed the capabilities of the human brain.

67. And while predictions beyond about 15 years are hard to make...

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

69. What does it all mean ?

70. Shift happens.

71. Now you know....

72. Presentation History Original Presentation, August 2006 Karl Fisch, Director of Technology, Arapahoe HS, CO Updated, January 2007 Scott McLeod, Assoc. Professor, Iowa State University Updated, November 2007 & January 2008 Brant Russell, IT Director, ESD 112