Did you know?

DID YOU KNOW?

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SOME FACTS:

 The top in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2010.

 The US Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38.

 1in 8 couples married in the US last year met online.

 There are over 200 millions registered users in MySpace.

 There are 31 billion searches on Google every month.

 The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992. Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total of the population of the planet.

 There are about 540,000 words in the English Language. About five times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

 Predictions are that by 2049. a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

SO WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?