You may have seen the video that Sony Corp. played to their shareholders, called "Did you Know?".The video, which runs barely 5-minutes, hits the viewer with rapid fire stats about the seismic demographic and technological changes that are happening in our world.
Researchers on the project Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman present the facts and leave it to you to decide "So what does it all mean?"
Below is the script for the video. Feel free read, absorb, copy and share.
You can see the video on YouTube (over 13,400,000 views so far) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
- "Did you know if you are one in 1 million in China, there are 1300 people just like you. China will soon become the #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. Translation: India has more honors kids than America has kids.
- 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 do not even know are problems yet.
- The US Department of Labor estimates that today's learner will have 10 to 14 jobs by the age of 38. One in four workers has been with their current employer for less than one year. One and two has been there less than five years.
- One in eight couples married in the US last year met online.
- There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. If MySpace were a country it would be the fifth largest in the world (between Indonesia and Brazil).
- The #1 ranked country in broadband Internet penetration is Bermuda, #19 is the United States, #22 is Japan.
We are living in exponential times. There are 31 billion searches on Google every month. In 2006, this number was 2.7 billion. To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (before Google). The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992. Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday, exceeds the population of the planet. - It took to reach a market audience of 50 million: radio 38 years, TV 13 years, Internet four years, iPod three years, Facebook two years.
- The number of Internet devices in 1984 was 1,000; the number of Internet devices in 1992 was 1,000,000; the number of Internet devices in 2008 is 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 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 (4x10^19) of unique information will be generated this year. That is more than the previous 5000 years.
- The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years. For students starting a four-year technical degree, this means that half of what they learn in the first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
- NTT Japan successfully tested a fiber optic cable that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down the single strand of fiber. That is 2660 CDs for 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 supercomputer will be built that exceeds 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. - During the course of this (5 min) presentation 67 babies were born in the US, 274 babies were born in China, and 395 babies were born in India. And 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.
So what does it all mean?"
