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Shift Happens!

April 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

We are living in exponential times… Here are only some of the amazing stats presented in video “Shift Happens!”:

  • 25% of the population in China with highest IQ is greater than the total population in North America 
  • The top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 did not exist in 2004 
  • The U.S. is   20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration (just behind Luxemburg)  
  • Nintendo invested  $140 million research and development in 2002 alone. The US Government spent less than half as much research  and innovation in  education…
  • 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online  
  • There are 106 million registered users of MySpace. If MySpace were a country it would be number 11th largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico) 
  • It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of  unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That’s estimated to be more than in the last 5,000 years… 

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  • 1 Global Nerdy » Shift Happens // Jun 21, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    […] Here are some of the stats presented in the video, courtesy of the blog Where is Puck: […]

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