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So, I saw this today and thought y'all should see it too. It as shown in a presentation by a colleague.
EDIT:
In case you are curious, here are the references for the slides. It's poorly formatted, but you get the point.
Slide # My Source Original Source
12-17 China/India Population Web Search on population, then did the math. Same.
19 China #1 English Speaking Country http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/more-musings-from-milken/
Somebody at the Milken Conference - http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/events.taf?function=detail&ID=159&cat=GC&EventID=GC06
21 China labor surplus Former Maine Governor Angus King presentation - http://web.mac.com/northeastleadership/iWeb/Angus_King/Podcast/A19C541A-7E2C-4BB3-A581-63EA068369CE.html
Don’t Know.
23 Babies in US/China/India Web search on population, then did the math. Same.
Old 24 U.S. Dept of Labor 10-14 careers Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Presumably U.S. Department of Labor Report. Also on web - http://www.fltimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=38&ArticleID=11301&SubSectionID=121
Can’t verify so changed slide (see next row).
New 24 10-14 jobs by the age of 38 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf among others Same.
Old 27-28 1 out of 2, more than 2 in 3 Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Presumably U.S. Department of Labor Report. Also on web at http://capitol2.tlc.state.tx.us/psf/9_12_03/meeting/Ian%20Jukes/Ian%20Jukes%20Presentation.pdf#search=%22%221%20out%20of%202%20workers%22%22 referencing book Windows on the Future by Ian Jukes and Ted McCain.
Can’t verify so changed slide (see next row).
New 27-28 1 out of 4, more than 1 in 2 ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/History/tenure.09212004.news
Same.
30 Top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Says Richard Riley was recently quoted in an article. Also on web at http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/winter06/frontier.shtml citing A 2004 book, The Jobs Revolution: Changing How America Works
34-37 Name this Country Angus King Presentation - http://web.mac.com/northeastleadership/iWeb/Angus_King/Podcast/A19C541A-7E2C-4BB3-A581-63EA068369CE.html
Don’t Know.
39 Broadband Penetration Web Search - http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0607/
Same.
40-41 Nintendo vs. U.S. Government http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/03/18/too-tired-to-blog/
“2002 Annual Report for Nintendo Company, Ltd” Corporate Info Nintendo Company, Ltd. 27 Apr. 2003
“FY 2004 Budget for the United States Government” U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Education. 27 Apr. 2003
42 1 out of 8 met online Fortune Magazine 8-7-2006 - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/07/8382578/index.htm
Quotes Diana Farrell, head of the McKinsey Global Institute
43-44 MySpace statistics Web Search - http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/myspace_stats_noted/
http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/06/23/shawn-gold-svp-myspace-marketing-in-a-networked-culture
Updated to 100 million - Fortune Magazine, 9-4-2006 - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm
47 2.4 billion Google Searches Web search Updated - 2.7 billion - http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156461
Same.
49 Number of text messages in a day Can’t find at the moment - I think it was in my notes from NECC. Haven’t found anything on web yet, but the numbers I’m seeing are in the ballpark.
50-51 540,000 words in English Language vs. Shakespeare’s time. Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Don’t Know. Lots on the web including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
52-53 3000 books daily Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Don’t Know. Lots on the web including http://www.princetoninfo.com/200405/40512c03.html
54-55 Week of NY times more than lifetime in 18th century Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Cites Richard Wurman book - Information Anxiety - http://www.amazon.com/Information-Anxiety-Richard-Saul-Wurman/dp/0789724103/sr=1-1/qid=1172692015/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0116902-0249611?ie=UTF8&s=books
56-57 1.5 exabytes of info Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Cites UC Berkeley Study
Update - http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/ - 5 exabytes in 2002
58-61 Tech info doubling Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Cites George Gilder - http://www.amazon.com/Telecosm-World-After-Bandwidth-Abundance/dp/0743205472/sr=1-2/qid=1172692403/ref=sr_1_2/002-0116902-0249611?ie=UTF8&s=bookshttp://www.amazon.com/Telecosm-World-After-Bandwidth-Abundance/dp/0743205472/sr=1-2/qid=1172692403/ref=sr_1_2/002-0116902-0249611?ie=UTF8&s=books
62-66 Fiber Optics Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Some from George Gilder, some from Ray Kurzweil, some from ?
67 epaper cheaper than real paper Ian Jukes - attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Don’t Know.
Couldn’t verify on web, so changed slide to remove 2008.
68-69 Laptops Nicholas Negroponte Keynote at NECC (attended and took notes) Don’t Know on the shipping number, the estimate is his of course.
70-74 Computers and Humans Ray Kurzweil book - The Singularity is Near - http://singularity.com/
Also http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1