9-10-14 Class

In today’s class we watched a video about how rapidly the earth is changing. One thing I learned is that soon China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world. Another thing I learned is that the 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ is greater than the US population. Something else I learned is that the top 10 in- demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. They are training the students for jobs that don’t even exist yet. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s students will have 10-14 jobs before the age 38. 1 out of 8 couples that were married in the U.S. last year met online. There are 845 million monthly active users on Facebook. Facebook is available in more than 70 languages. If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest (behind China & India) Twitter is seeing 50 million tweets per day. That would mean there are 600 tweets per second. There are 31 billion google searchers per month. In 2006, the number was 2.6 million. The first commercial text message was sent in 1992. Today the number of text messages sent and received exceed the population of the planet. For radio, it took 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million. For the internet, it took 4 years to reach an audience of 50 million. For the iPod, it took 3 years to reach an audience of 50 million. I took 2 years for Facebook to reach an audience of 50 million. The number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000. The number of internet devices in 2008 1,000,000,000. The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years. For students starting a 4 year technical degree that means half of what they learn in their first year of study will be out dated by their third year of study. Digital music sales in 2011 outstripped physical sales for the first time ever. During the video there was a total of 694,000 songs downloaded illegally.