major shifts shaping our world

10 TOP OF MINDSHIFTS

By the end of 2009, more than 85% of US online consumers will be reading or viewing social content.

More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC, CBS, and NBC had been airing new content (with no re-runs) 24/7/365 since 1948.

BI-GENERATIONALWORKFORCE

Millennials spend 2.5x more time online on social networks than Boomers.

On average, knowledge workers change activities every three minutes, usually because they're distracted by email or a phone call.

440 million new consumers in emerging economies will more than double the middle-class in China and India by 2030

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. And Moore’s law will continue to roll – at least through 2015.

CONNECTED EVERYTHING

Nearly a quarter of the world's population – roughly 1.4 billion people –used the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 billionunique users, or 30% of the world's population, in 2012.