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Did You Know That? by tomakint: 11:41am On Dec 18, 2012
• If you are 1 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 United States – India has more honours kids than America has kids!
• The top 10 in-demands 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 US 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 while 1 in 2 has been there less than five years!
• 1 out of 8 couples that got married in the US in 2007 met online!
• As at 2008, there are over 200 million registered users on MySpace!
• If MySpace were to be a country, it would be the 5th-largest in the world!
• As at 2008, the number one ranked country in Broadband Internet penetration is Bermuda, number 19 is the United States while the number 22 is Japan!
• We are living in exponential times, as at 2008, there are about 31 billion searches on Google every month, whereas in 2006, the number of Google searches was 2.7 billion!
• 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!
• It took the radio about 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million!
• It took the T.V about 13 years to reach a market audience of 50 million!
• It took the Internet about 4 years to reach a market audience of 50 million!
• It took the IPod about 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million!
• It took Facebook about 2 years to reach a market audience of 50 million!
• 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 was 1,000,000,000!
• There are about 540,000 words in the English language, that means about 5 times 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 about 4 exabytes (4.0×10^19) of unique information was generated in 2008, which was more than 5,000 years ago, how much more now (2012)!
• 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!
• Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), a government owned corporation handling telecommunications in Japan has successfully tested a fiber-optic cable that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber, which is equivalent to 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 next year (2013), a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain!
• Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species!
• In the course of reading this piece, an estimated 67 babies were already born in the US, 274 babies were born in China, 395 babies were born in India and about 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally!
Bottom line: The above revelations are confirmation to the signs of the end of time that is gradually surfacing as a result of increase in the level of knowledge of mankind (read the Book of Daniel 12: 4). cool
Re: Did You Know That? by Tolexander: 5:34pm On Dec 18, 2012
nice extract!
show us where u gat the copy to paste. Oh sory, give us the link!
Re: Did You Know That? by tomakint: 5:40pm On Dec 18, 2012
Tolexander: nice extract!
show us where u gat the copy to paste. Oh sory, give us the link!
no link, but got if from a compilation in one my video collections! read thru my signature you will understand!!!

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