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1 Did You Know...

2 Sometimes size does matter.

3 During the course of this 7 minute presentation...

4 44 babies will be born in the U.K. 244 babies will be born in China. 351 babies will be born in India.

5 If you’re one in a million in China...

6 There are 1,300 people just like you.

7 In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.

8 In China 25% of the population with the highest IQ’s...

9 Is greater than the total population of North America.

10 In India, it’s the top 28%.

11 That’s nearly 3 times the entire population in UK& Ireland

12 What does that mean to us?

13 According to former US Secretary of Education Richard Riley...

14 They have more honors kids than we have kids in the UK & Ireland.

15 The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

16 We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist...

17 Using technologies that haven’t been invented yet...

18 In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

19 What does that mean to us?

20 Did you know...

21 China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

22 In less than a decade, English will be the universal language of global communications to be followed by Mandarin.

23 If you took every single job in the U.K & Ireland today and shipped it to China...

24 China would still have an enormous labor surplus.

25 40% of the world’s microwave ovens were manufactured in 2006 from a single factory in China.

26 China is on course to become the world's largest exporter by 2007.

27 What does that mean to us?

28 In 1950, the Asian economies' share of world GDP was 18.5 %.

29 By 2020 their share is expected to have increased to 30.3 %

30 What does that mean to us?

31 they are likely to be bigger than the UK & Ireland, French and German economies combined.

32 Did you know...

33 WiFi connections have rapidly increased in the UK from 1% in 2003 to 29% in 2007.

34 There are 50 million net users in India alone and rising…

35 UK& Ireland has still maintained its position as one of the best places in the world for e-business

36 72% of Britons choose the internet as their first port of call for information and research.

37 What does that mean to us?

38 There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace. (August 2006)

39 In the UK & Ireland alone MySpace has over 10 million regular users, with 1.8 million users in London alone.

40 The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

41 There is over 31 million Facebook users and growing by 4% per week. This means there are over 100,000 new users per day.

42 Facebook is projected to reach 50 million users by end of 2007. With over 4 million users in UK & Ireland alone

43 Did you know...

44 Within 10 years, it is predicted that we will all be watching 3D TV

45 According to projections, India’s 3D vision, animation and gaming market will be worth $1.3 billion by 2009

46 In just three years time 70% of all UK online content will be user- generated…

47 What does that mean to us?

48 Did you know...

49 We are living in exponential times.

50 By 2010 wireless email users will have grown from 20 million to 350 million

51 The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

52 And yet with a global population of over 1 billion people;

53 1 in 5 people today still live in poverty on less than one dollar a day

54 What does that mean to us?

55 There are about 540,000 words in the English language...

56 About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

57 More than 3,000 new books are published...

58 Daily.

59 It’s estimated that a week’s worth of The Guardian...

60 Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.

61 . Online advertising now accounts for 11.4% of all advertising spending in the UK, compared to 10.9% for newspapers.

62 It’s estimated that 40 exabytes (that’s 4.0 x 10 19 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

63 That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

64 What does that mean to us?

65 The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

66 It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

67 That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.

68 It’s currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.

69 What does that mean to us?

70 Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the Human Brain...

71 By 2023, a computer that will exceed the computation capability of the Human Brain will cost $1000...

72 And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years are hard to do...

73 Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.

74 What does that mean to us?

75 The Human Network is a mainstream phenomenon… Now.

76 We are Changing the Way the World Lives, Works, Learns and Plays.

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