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DID YOU KNOW? (Highlights)

• “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.”
• “1 in 8 couples married in the US last year met online”
• “If Myspace.com was a country it would be the 5th largest country in the world. Over 200 000 000 registered users”
• “There are 31 BILLION searches monthly on Google every month. In 2006 the number was 2.7 billion! To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)”
• “First commercial text message was sent in December 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
• Predictions are that by 2049 a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.