The pace of change continues to astound, as can be recognized by this presentation by Scott McLeod (runtime: 6 minutes): http://www.scottmcleod.org/didyouknow.wmv
A few highlights:
- There are more honors students in India than there are students in North America.
- By 2023, today's first graders will use a computer costing less than $1000 that has more computational power than the human brain.
- China will soon become the largest English speaking country in the world.
- One out of every eight couples married last year met online.
- If MySpace were a country, it'd be the 11th most populous in the world.
- More than 3000 books are published every day.
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