Yes that's what it is all about. Any one can speak for ages on change although she herself would not want a CHANGE.
Here is the best presentation I liked about change and for the records I am writing the script of the same in my blog to remember and to refer back.
http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834
Shift Happens
Did You Know?
Sometimes size does matter
If you are one in a million in China
There are 1300 people just like you
In India there are 1100 people just like you
The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ's
Is greater than the total population of North America
In India it's the top 28 %
Translation: They have more honors kids than we (Americans) have kids
Did you know?
China will soon become the NUMBER ONE English speaking country in the world
If you took every single job in the US today and shipped it to CHINA
China would still have a labor surplus
During the course of this presentation
60 Babies will be born in the US
244 babies will be born in China
351 babies will be born in India
The US department of labor estimated that today's learner will have 10 - 1r4 jobs...
...by the age of 38
1 out of every 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less that one year.
More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for less than FIVE years
According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley ...
... the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist ....
using technologies that haven't been invented....
in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.
POP QUIZ Name this country...
Richest in the world
Largest Military
Center of world business and finance
Strongest education system
World center of innovation and invention
Currency the world standard of value
Highest standard of living
England .... in 1900
Did you know ?
The US ranks 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration
In 2002 Nintendo invested more than $ 410 Mn in research and development
The US Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education
1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year met online
There are over 106 Mn registered users of MySpace (as of September 2006)
If MySpace were a country it would be the 11th-largest in the world
The average MySpace page is visited 30 times per day
Did you Know ?
We are living in exponential times
There are over 2.7 Bn searches performed on Google each month
To whom were these questions addressed before GOOGLE ?
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet
There are 540,000 words in the English language ...
about 5X as many as during Shakespeare's time.
More than 3,000 new books are published every day
It is estimated that a week's worth of New York Times ...
.... contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years
For students starting a four-year technical or college degree this means that ...
half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study
By 2010 it is predicted to double every 72 hours
Third generation fiber optics have recently been separately tested by NEC and Alcatel...
... that carry 10 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber.
That is 1,900 CDs of 150 Mn phone calls every second
It is currently tripling every 6 months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years
e-paper will eventually be cheaper than real paper
47 Mn laptops were shipped worldwide last year
The $ 100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 Mn laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries
Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability if the human brain
And while technical predictions further out that about 15 years are hard to do...
predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species
So, what does it all mean?
SHIFT HAPPENS
Now you know
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