28 October 2008 | Posted inBlog News & Updates
Via Jim Rice
Thanks Jim for this…
Have you seen this yet?
It’s a video by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman that includes several interesting facts such as:
- China will soon be the number one English speaking country in the world
- If MySpace were a country it’d be the fifth largest country in the world
- 31 billion Google searches are done each month, up from 2.7 billion in 2006
- The first commercial text message was sent in 1992, the total sent each day now exceeds the entire human population of Earth
- It took radio 38 years to gain an audience of 50 million, it took Facebook only 2 years
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Also,
I think it’s important to note that as ‘new’ as Myspace, Google, Facebook, texting seems to be, it’s relatively old in modern terms.
What’s next and why?
I’d like us all to ask ourselves “what has come out of this increased communication?” Challenge to you all: what has changed?
pretty impressive stats! i love the concept that technology is helping make the world “flat” – greater and faster access to information & knowledge = greater opportunities for innovation!
aside: i really need to finish “Hot, Flat & Crowded”!
incredible stats!
i have a few more for you…based on a slide show by Kark Fisch
Nintendo invested $140 million in R & D (2002).
The US Federal Gov’t invested less than 1/2 that amount on Research & Innovation in education.
the top 10 jobs in 2010 didnt even exist 5 years ago…
there are about 540,000 words in the english language – about 5x as many as in Shakespeares times
“we are living in exponential times”
Bruce Mau’s ‘Massive Change’ has a lot of great statistics like this also.
Who do you think is more innovative? Apple (hardware and software) or Microsoft (software)? (Microsoft spends 9 times more on R&D than Apple)