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Great way of showing internet-related numbers. Read the full transcription below:

Did you know
- If you´re one in a million in China... there are 1,300 people just like you
- China will soon become the number one 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 USA
- 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 don´t even know are problems yet.
- 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
- 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)
- The #1 ranked country in Broadband Internet Penetration is... Bermuda
- #19 The USA, #22 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 total population of the planet.
- Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million: Radio 38 years, TV 13 years, Internet 4 years,iPod 3 years, Facebook 2 years.
- The number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000, in 1992 was 1,000,000, in 2008 is 1,000,000,000.
- There are about 540,000 words in English Language
- About 5X as many as during Shakespeare´s time
- 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 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.
- 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starting a 4 year technical degree this means that...half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
- NTT Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable... that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber. That´s 2,660 CDs 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.
- By 2013, a 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 presentation (5 minutes)... 67 babies were born in the USA, 274 in China, 395 in India... and 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.
- So what does it all mean?