3. Facts: Human Version
• Information can go in between parts of your brain at a speed of
260mph.
• Kim Ung-Yong of South Korea had the highest IQ ever recorded
(210)
• You have over 100,000 miles of axons in your brain. They could
wrap around the Earth 4 times.
• Actually, your brain is MORE active when you're asleep.
4. Facts:
Technology Version
- 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.
- There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are
sold every day.
- About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak
english.
- Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
- About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.
- 24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
- Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.
5. Facts: History Version
• 50% of the world population will never make a phone
call.
• Novelest William Gibson coined the term
“cyberspace” in his 1984 novel, Neuromancer
• Early computers took up 1,000 square ft. of floor
space.
• The 1st commercially successful minicomputer
sold for $18,000 1965.
• 1450 Johann Gutenburg invents a printing press
with movable type
6. • 1965 The first international telecommunications satillite
launched (Intelsat)
• 1969 ARPANET computer network lays the foundation
for the internet.
• 1971 E-mail is invented and used on ARPANET.
• 1973 1st international connection to ARPANET.
• 1994 Yahoo Internet Index Created.
• 1995 Dial-up Internet access is available in American
households.
• 1995 1st television program delivered over the Internet.
• 2005 Blogs (Web Logs) gain prominence and influence in news
coverage.
7. • For an student who pursue four year technical education,
half the information learned in his first year would be
outdated by final year of his study.
• The latest FIBRE optics communication technology can carry
up to 10 Trillion data per second.
• 50 Billion devices would be connected to the Internet by
2020.
8. Facts: World Version
• There are around 100 billion searches in Google,
every month.
• YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the
world.
• Around 175+ million people connect through
Facebook every moment.
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the third
largest in the world.
• 3.5 zeta bytes of unique information would be
created by the end of 2014.
10. • Artificial Intelligence will Leapfrog Human’s by 2020.
• "It seems plausible that with technology we can, in the fairly
near future," says sci-fi legend Vernor Vinge, "create (or
become) creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual
and creative dimension.
