Shift happens

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Melissa Worden

This slideshow based on content by Karl Fisch has been around. But in case you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. Here are some of the points I found most interesting:

>> The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet.

>> It is estimated that 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.

>>There are about 540,000 words in the English language — about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

>> We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.