The document discusses trends in population growth, education, technology advancements, and the job market. It notes that the high school completion rate in the US is 70% but only 51% for African American males. It also discusses increasing birth rates in China and India compared to the US. The document highlights rapid changes in technologies and how jobs and skills will need to change quickly to keep pace with innovations that haven't been invented yet. It predicts that within a few decades, computers will surpass human levels of intelligence. The summary concludes that the world is changing at an exponential rate and that societies must adapt to shifting conditions.
35. • Richest in the World
• Largest Military
• Center of world business and finance
• Strongest education system
• World center of innovation and invention
• Currency the world standard of value
• Highest standard of living
64. Third generation fiber optics has
recently been separately tested
by NEC and Alcatel . . .
65. …that pushes 10 trillion bits per
second down one strand of fiber.
66. That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million
simultaneous phone calls every
second.
67. It’s currently tripling about every
6 months and is expected to do
so for at least the next 20 years.
68. The fiber is already there, they’re
just improving the switches on
the ends. Which means the
marginal cost of these
improvements is effectively $0.