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We are living in exponential times…

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“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the

inside, the end is near.”

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“Change before you have to.”

Jack Welch Chairman & CEO - General Electric

How is Our World Changing ?


… the speed of change is unimaginable and accelerating

Years it took to reach 50 million users:

Radio – 38 years

TV – 13 years

Internet – 4 years

IPOD – 3 years

That’s more than in the previous 5,000

years combined.

40 Billion+ gigabytes of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

The amount of new technical information being created was doubling every 2 years at the beginning of the last decade.

The amount of new technical information is currently

estimated to double every 72 hours as of 2010.

YouTube started in December 2005…

… it currently experiences over 6 Billion hours

viewed EACH MONTH.

… it currently experiences over 1 Billion unique viewers

EACH MONTH.

More video content was uploaded to You Tube in the last 2 months…

Then the amount of content that would be aired if all three major

networks broadcast content

24 hours per day for 62 years

Facebook added 100 million users in just 9 months… IPOD apps downloads topped 1 BILLION in just 9 months…


… your children communicate differently, electronically, globally

and in “real time”

Twitter receives 500 million tweets per day.

…and hit a peak of 143,199 tweets per second in 2013

It now has over 1.07 Billion registered users.

Facebook started about 11 years ago in October 2003

It is has over 829 million active users every day.

. . .it would be the 3rd largest country

in the world

If Facebook were a country . . .

. . . behind only China and India and 33% bigger than the U.S.

Recent PEW research concluded that: over 30% of people now get their news from 64% of adults in the US use Facebook


…information is ubiquitous and exploding!

There are approximately 3.5 BILLION Google

internet searches per DAY

(1.2 TRILLION per year)

(Before Google)

To whom were those questions directed B.G?

Email Facts

3.9 billion email users worldwide

183 billion daily worldwide emails

500+ million Gmail accounts globally

75% of all Gmail is filtered as SPAM

There are approximately 1,025,110

words in the English language

about 17 times more than during

Shakespeare’s time

More than 6,000 new books are

published globally…

. . . Daily

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.

…those students receiving face-to-face

instruction.

In a recent study, online students out-performed…


… we live/compete globally not locally

Within the life of the current

“younger generation” the number one English speaking country in the

world will be . . .

… China

…100%

How many

college graduates in India speak

English?

The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ is greater than the total population of

the U. S.

Translation: India has more honors kids than the U.S. has kids


… Your children live in a different world than you did and are playing “a game with which you are not

familiar.”

The average kid today sends 2,640 text messages…

That’s 88 per day…

…per month

In 2014, there will be an estimated 50 BILLION text messages sent in the world…

… PER DAY

More than 50% of U.S. 21-year-olds have created content on the web More than 70% of

U.S. 4-year-olds have used a

computer

What % of kids do you think have used an IPAD

or tablet?

… did not even exist in

2004

The top 10 on demand

jobs in 2012…

In other words, we

are currently preparing students

for jobs that don’t yet exist

. . . using technologies that haven’t yet been

invented…

…in order to solve problems we don’t

even know are problems yet

Today’s learners will have 10 to

14 jobs…

… by their 38th birthday

1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. in 2005 . . .

. . .met online

By 2013, 1 out of 3 couples in the U.S.

met online


So what does this mean for YOU and the institutions you care

about?

“Change before you have to.”

Awaken Yourself

Reset Something In Your Life

Make Something Happen!

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