Did You Know? Created by Karl Fisch Adapted by Howard Ross

34 Babies will be born in the next 8 seconds….

4 in China 5 in India1 in the US

What Country? Richest in the world Largest military Center of world business and finance Strongest education system Currency the standard of the world Highest standard of living

Great Britain…in 1900!

College Graduates in 2006 US 1.3 Million India 3.1 Million China 3.3 Million

What percentage of Indian college graduates speak English? 100%

The # 1 English speaking country in the world is… China now has more English speaking people than the United States has people!

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s grade school students will have jobs by the time they are 38 years old

 According to former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley…the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 did not exist in  We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…using technologies that haven’t yet been invented…in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

Today’s 21 year olds have… 20,000 hours on TV 10,000 hours on Video Games 300,000 s and IMs10,000 hours on the phone

More than 50% of U.S. 21 year olds have already created web content 50%

70% of U.S. four year olds already use a computer

We are living in exponential times…

Time it takes to reach an audience of 50 million people… Radio…38 years TV…13 years Internet…less than one year

Internet devices worldwide… 1984…1, …1,000, …600,000, …900,000,000

The number of daily text messages now exceeds the population of the planet 6,000,000,000+

More than 1 in 7 U.S. couples married in 2008 met online

There were 31 million searches on Google…this month! Who answered these questions B.G.? (Before Google)

200,000 new users join Facebook every day…almost 200,000,000 active users since 2004!

YouTube has 200,000,000 hits every day

3,000 new books are published… every day! 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 18 th century. Information is expanding exponentially…

One-third of the 2 Billion children in developing countries never complete 5th grade The One Laptop per Child project (OLPC)has distributed one million computers to them since 2007

Children who historically have barely been able to read will now be connected….to you!

By 2040 Europe will have a shortfall of 24 million workers 15 to 65 years of age

Almost 12% of U.S. residents were born outside of the country…the highest percentage since the 19th Century Sweden, Italy, Portugal, and Spain all have immigrant populations between 7 and 14% Between 2002 and million foreign- born immigrants came to the U.K. and 750,000 British citizens left Demographic changes are at historic levels in the U.S. and Europe…

90% of workers in Dubai are foreign born Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates all have immigrant populations over 35% …and in the Middle East…

…and Africa… There are one billion Africans…up from 224 million in The United Nations projects two billion in 2050, 20% aged 15 to 24, and many unemployed, encouraging immigration

…and Asia By 2015 China’s economy can be expected to be about the size of the EU and only 15% below the U.S. Taiwan had 373,000 migrant workers in 2008 Indian has million English speaking college graduates Japan’s working age population is expected to drop from 65% in 2007 to 47% in 2050 South Korea has one of the world’s highest rates of university enrollment…many study, and settle, in other countries

84% of the people in the world now live in developing countries 180 million people live and work outside their country of origin In 1955, 75 of the 100 largest industrial businesses in the world were in the United States. By 1996 that number was 24. Estimates are that by 2037 the number will be 8. The top 20 most populated cities in the world now have one thing in common…none of them are in Europe or the United States!

What does all of this mean? The combination of mass communication, immigration and demographic movement has radically altered the size and interaction of the world…and has brought the world into our businesses, our communities, and our homes

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