Did You Know?
Posted by Lisa Toner on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 @ 06:58 PM
- Less than one quarter of employed people used computers at work in the early 1980’s.
- 160 billion emails are sent every day. 97% of these are spam.
- A twillionaire is a twitterer with more than 1 million followers
- There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use today. 3 million are sold every day.
- Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.
- The top 10 in-demand jobs right now, did not exist in 2004.
- 1 in 8 couples met online
- Amazon sells more E-books than printed books
- Facebook has 500 million users
- 1.8 billion People connect to the internet.
- Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of C02 each day.
- Flickr hosts 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts 15 billion.
- The computer in your cell phone today is 1 million times cheaper, 1000 times more powerful and 100,000 times smaller than the one at MIT in 1965.
- If Myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest in the world. (Between Japan and Mexico)
- Students are currently being prepared for jobs that do not exist yet, and technologies that have not been invented.
- The number of text messages sent and received each day exceeds the total population of the planet.
- The amount of new technical information is doubling every 72 hours.
- Predictions are that by 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation ability of the human brain.
Now after all that, what do you think about this rapidly changing technological world? Will the next generation laugh at the idea of an iPad?
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