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This is a different kind of review. There is a video posted on YouTube that will blow your mind. Times are changing and changing fast. This video clip helps paint that picture with some amazing facts!
To some this is scary. To others this is fascinating. But however it makes you feel, you must know that we are living in the Information Age. We have so much information available to all of us right now, it is hard to imagine it doubling every couple of years.
Think about people living 100 years ago. What a different world they lived in compared to us. But who knows, in just 20 years people may look back on 2007 the way we look back on 1907.
Check out some of these "Did You Know?" Highlights
According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley, the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2020 didn't exist in 2004.
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist... which will use technologies that haven't yet been invented... in order to solve problems that we don't even know are problems yet.
1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace (as of September 2006). If MySpace were a country, it would be the 11th-largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico).
There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
More than 3,000 new books are published daily!
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
Aren't these amazing facts? They can seem a bit scary. But the important thing to take and learn is that a major shift is happening. CHANGE is happening faster than ever before. Those who don't change will miss out on great opportunities.
Go to the following page on YouTube to watch the video and expand your global view.