Shift Happens

This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century. It is designed to stand alone, without having to be presented in person. Enjoy!

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2. DID YOU
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If you're one in a million in China...

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7. The 25% of the population in China
with the highest IQ’s...

8. -is greater than the total population
of North America.

9. In India, it’s the top 28%

10. Translation:

They have more honors kids

than we have kids

11. DID YOU
KNOW

13. If you took every single job in the U.S. today
and shipped it to China...

14. ...China would still have

a labor surplus

15. During the course
of this presentation...

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19. 1 out of 4 workers today

is working for a company they have been
employed by for less than one year

20. more than 1 out of 2

are working for a company they have
worked for for less than five years.

21. According to former
Secretary of Education

Richard Riley...

22. the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010
did not exist in 2004

23. We are currently
preparing students

for jobs that

don't yet exist...

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Y Largest military

Y Center of world business and finance

Y Strongest education system

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Y Currency the world standard of value

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29. DID YOU
KNOW ?

30. The U.S. ranks |
20th in the world

in broadband

internet
penetration

31. In 2002 Nintendo invested

more than $140 million
in research and development.

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Nintendo

32. The U.S. Federal Government spent

less than half as much

on Research and Innovation in Education.

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Nintendo America

33. 1 out of 8 couples married
in the U.S. last year met online

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34. There are over 106 million

registered users of MySpace
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35. If MySpace were a country,
it would be the 11th-largest in the world

(between Japan and Mexico)

36. The average
MySpace page

is visited
30 times
per day

37. DID YOU
KNOW

39. There are over 2.7 billion searches
performed on Google each month

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40. To whom were these questions addressed

before Google?

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41. The number of text messages
sent and received every day

exceeds the total
population of the planet

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

43. about 5X as many as
during Shakespeare’s time.

44. More than 3,000 new books
are published every day

45. It is estimated that a

week’s worth of New York Times...

46. ...contains more information
than a person was likely to come across

in a lifetime in the 18th century.

47. Iti is trl ied that 40 exabytes (4.0 x On
mic jue new informati«
will be generated worldwide this year.

48. That is more than in the
previous 5,000 years.

49. The amount of new technical information is

doubling every 2 years

50. For students starting a four-year
technical or college degree,

this means that...

51. half of what they learn in their first
year of study will be outdated
by their third year of study.

52. By 2010 it is predicted to
double every 72 hours

53. Third generation fiber optics
have recently been separately testéd
by NEC and Alcatel...

54. that carry 10 trillion bits per second
down a single strand of fiber.

55. That is 1,900 CDs ¿

or 150 million phone calls

every second

56. It is currently tripling every 6 months and is
expected to do so for the next 20 years

57. e-paper will eventually be
cheaper than real paper

58. 47 million laptops were
shipped worldwide last year.

59. The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship
between 50 and 100 million laptops a year
to children in underdeveloped countries

60. Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer
will be built that exceeds the computation

capability of the human brain

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

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predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer
will exceed the computational capabilities

of the entire human species

63. So, what does it all mean?

64. shifthappens

65. NOW YOU
KNOW

66. Credits:

« Content based on a slideshow by Karl Fisch

« Source of content: The Fischbowl Blog
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com

67. Credits:

s Presentation design by Jeff Brenman of: