Posts Tagged ‘digital’

“Everything’s going digital” seems to be all we’ve heard in the beginning of the 21st century, but now the digital world is evolving. An Apple or a blackberry no longer only applies only to fruit. C++ isn’t in orange juice, Java isn’t just a cup of coffee anymore, and having a bluetooth doesn’t mean you were drinking blue Koolaid.

We are living in exponential times. The things we worry about today including hackers, internet fraud, identity theft and cybercrimes in general weren’t even in existence 20 years ago.

Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every second, and teens send an average of 2,272 text messages per month. 90% of the 200 billion emails sent every day are spam. The mobile device will be the world’s primary connection tool to the internet in 2020. 95% of the songs that have been downloaded haven’t been paid for.

The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper, and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965. So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, and what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years -Ray Kurzweil

The top 10 “in demand” jobs of 2010 didn’t exist in 2004. Therefore, we are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented yet, to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

There are approximately 31 billion searches on Google every month, and in 2006 that number was 2.7 billion. The first text message was sent in December of 1992. Today the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet.

What we could write in 10 minutes with instant messenger would have taken a matter of months by letter 20 years ago. Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

The news is constantly presenting us with signs of the evolution of the “digital age”. As each generation passes the span that digital technology reaches grows more. Six year olds on an iPhone and our grandparents checking their email isn’t as uncommon as it was before. As the perpetual evolution of technology advances we discover that the future is here.

Information Credit: The information included is thanks to the “Did You Know” video series from youtube.com.