Fun Factz or Phacts!, Did You Know? Options

[Kalisurfer]

Facts Phacts Faxts

Did You Know?

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

That China will soon become the NUMBER ONE English speaking country in the world.

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The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ’s…
…is Greater than the total population of the United States.

Translation: India has more honors kids than America has kids.

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The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 …
… did not exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…
…using technologies that haven’t been invented…
…in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

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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 five years.

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

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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)

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The #1 ranked country in
Broadband Internet Penetration is…
…Bermuda!

#19 – The United States
#22 – Japan

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We are living in Exponential Times:

There are 31 Billion searches on Google every month.
In 2006 this number was 2.7 Billion.

It makes one wonder just whom were all these questions addressed to B.G. (Before Google)?

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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.

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Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million:

Radio – 38 years
Television – 13 years
Internet – 4 years
iPod – 3 years
Facebook – 2 years

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The number of internet devices in certain years:
in 1984 was 1,000
in 1992 – 1,000,000
in 2008 – 1,000,000,000

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There are about 540,000 words in the English Language…
about 5X as many as during Shakespears’s time.

It is estimated that a weeks’ worth of the 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.

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

For students starting a 4 year technical degree This means that…
half of what they learn in their first year of study
will be outdated by their third year of study.

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NTT Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable…
…that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber.

That is 2,660 CD’s 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.

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By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceed the computational
capabilities of the human brain.

Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational
capabilities of the entire human species.

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During the course of reading this post…
67 babies were born in the USA…
274 babies were born in China…
395 babies were born in India…
and 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.

Hmmm…so what does all this mean?

[angrezi]

it means in the future babies will be downloaded

[ePiTau]

when single computers that exceed the computational
capabilities of the entire human species
begin to worship God
we have a major situation

[Dhyana]

it means in the future babies will be downloaded

They already are -- but it's an excruciatingly slow and painful process!

Thanks for this compilation of facts, Kalisurfer! It makes me wonder though, at what age is a human to be considered an "outdated model"? I already now cannot keep up with much of the technology. By the time I retire, will I still be able to unlock doors, use washing machines, turn on the light, call for medical assistance?

[Dhyana]

when single computers that exceed the computational
capabilities of the entire human species
begin to worship God
we have a major situation

Reminds me of an old, old joke about a major company that decided to built a supercomputer to answer once and for all the question of God's existence. When the ribbon was cut and the question keyed in, after some crunching the answer popped up: "Insufficient data."

The engineers set about to expand the computer's processing power. After a few months, the question "Does God exist?" was asked again. But the computer, despite its more than double processing power, again answered that the data was insufficient.

The engineering team than pulled all stops and in a year, they had a computer more than hundred times more powerful than the old one. It sat on a satellite, with smaller computer units around the globe. "Does God exist?" the question was keyed in again.

Immediately came the answer: "Now, yes."

[zanardi]

Maybe this will end up as a movie? Perhaps Terminator part four? Religious persecution of Machines?

[babu]

hopefully with all this information, humans will finally realize they are not the body, so much knowledge and still this is not known

[Brainiac]

I already now cannot keep up with much of the technology. By the time I retire, will I still be able to unlock doors, use washing machines, turn on the light, call for medical assistance?

New Way To Store Information in DNA Discovered - Researchers at UC Riverside have found a way to get into your body and your bloodstream ... The researchers discovered a system to encode digital information within DNA ... Why is this discovery important? The human genome consists of the equivalent of approximately 750 megabytes of data – a significant amount of storage space. However, only about three percent of DNA goes into composing the more than 22,000 genes that make us what we are. The remaining 97 percent leaves plenty of room to encode information in a genome, allowing the information to be preserved and replicated in perpetuity.

How ironic, the human genome can hold only 750MB. And I was just thinking of getting a 1TB external HD for storage.