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The 25% of the population with the highest IQ's in China...

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

In India, it's 28%

China is the number 1 English-speaking country in the world

The US Dept of Labor estimates today's learner will hold 10-14 jobs...

...before they are 38 (i've had 17 and i'm turning 25)

1 out of 4 of us in the US has been working for a company less than a year...

and 1 half of us, less than 5 years

Former Secretary of Ed, Richard Riley, said that the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010...

...didn't exist in 2004.

The US is only 20th in broadband internet access in the world

Nintendo invested over $140 million in R&D in 2002 alone...

...as a country, federally and state (this includes private schools and PTA's), we spent less on education

1 of every 8 couples married in the US two years ago met online

The average MySpace page is visited 30 times...

...per day

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

...about 5 times as many as in Shakespeare's day

a week's worth of New York Time's...

...contains more info that a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th Century

The amount of unique new information generated this year worldwide...

... is expected to be more than the previous 5,000 years

Technical info alone is doubling every 2 years

Fully half of what technical students in 4 year programs will be outdated...

...by their 3rd year of study

And by 2010, the new technical info is predicted to double...

...every 72 hours

Predictions (which are at an all time accuracy high in the tech industry) are that by 2013...

...a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain

By 2023, when 1st graders now will be starting new careers...

...it will cost them less than $1,000 to own that computer

Less reliably predicted (beyond the 15 year mark is difficult), by 2049...

...a $1,000 (assuming dollars mean something) computer will exceed the computational capabilities...

...of the human race


As the woman said, "The future is turning out to be a lot more futuristic than they predicted it would be."