I am inspired. Not by a person but by people, all around me. This is not a cheesy line but something of an elaborate conclusion.
You have to see the video below. It is unbelievable and it'll make you think. Not just of today, not just of people around you but also about the future and where we're headed. The progression of information technology has never been better put before. Researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman.
Did you know?
China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world
The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is greater that the total population of the United States. Translation: India has more honours kids than America has kids.
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't...using technologies that haven't been invented ... in order to solve problems that we don't even know are problems yet.
The #1ranked country in Broadband internet penetration is Bermuda
There are 31 billion searches on Google every month. In 2006 this number was 2.7 billion.
The first text message was sent in December of 1992. Today, the number of text messages sent and received exceeds the total population of the planet.
There are about 540,000 words in the English Language. About 5X as many during Shakespeare's time.
It is unbelievably true. We are living in times where change is the only the thing that's constant. Everyday we evolve and so do the things around us. And with technology, it doesn't evolve, it grows - exponentially!
Let's take the example of computers and mobiles: the laptop first came into existence in 1981 by Adam Osborne. Progressing from an earlier version called Dynabook in 1968. Today as we enter 2010, there are more than 8,745,693 laptops in the world! (Source: Wikianswers) In the start of this year more that 950 million mobile phones were sold! The number continues to grow everyday.
Mobiles have ceased to be the boon of the erstwhile 'first-world country'. Third-world countries have now become the favourite haunts of tech companies. In Kenya, one in three adults own a mobile device! The world as I see it, will continue to experience tremendous growth and every device that hits the ground will multiply in sales and grow exponentially!
Companies know that in countries like Japan, China and Korea most people use the mobile phone as the means to connect to the internet and are slowly realizing the full potential of driving advertising and sales revenues on the new medium. Obviously, they want revenues to grow exponentially! People have started to get 'social' through mobiles as well. According to eMarketer, in a article titled 'Mobile Plus Social Equals Opportunity' predicts that the number of mobile phone users accessing social networks from their mobile devices will reach 607.5 million worldwide by 2013!
Let's take the example of computers and mobiles: the laptop first came into existence in 1981 by Adam Osborne. Progressing from an earlier version called Dynabook in 1968. Today as we enter 2010, there are more than 8,745,693 laptops in the world! (Source: Wikianswers) In the start of this year more that 950 million mobile phones were sold! The number continues to grow everyday.
Mobiles have ceased to be the boon of the erstwhile 'first-world country'. Third-world countries have now become the favourite haunts of tech companies. In Kenya, one in three adults own a mobile device! The world as I see it, will continue to experience tremendous growth and every device that hits the ground will multiply in sales and grow exponentially!
Companies know that in countries like Japan, China and Korea most people use the mobile phone as the means to connect to the internet and are slowly realizing the full potential of driving advertising and sales revenues on the new medium. Obviously, they want revenues to grow exponentially! People have started to get 'social' through mobiles as well. According to eMarketer, in a article titled 'Mobile Plus Social Equals Opportunity' predicts that the number of mobile phone users accessing social networks from their mobile devices will reach 607.5 million worldwide by 2013!
Numbers with four zeros at the end multiply and see millions in matter of a few years. Devices that are new and awesome today are obsolete in the next. Everyday we hear of a new innovation, a new mind, a novel idea being put to test. Even if we're assured that tomorrow is not promised to us, let's wait for the question mark to fade away and see in its place, the light of something new and exciting.
We are living in exponential times and there is no denying that.
We are living in exponential times and there is no denying that.
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