Did you know?

1. Did you know?

2. Computers are getting faster In 1982 computers could run 11,200,000 Instructions per second!

3. In 2008... 59,450,000,000 That is over 5000 times faster!

4. What will it be in 2020?

5. What will we be able to accomplish?

6. Computers are made up of millions of transistors A modern processor has about 291,000,000 transistors

7. The first transistor was made in 1947 It was about the size an adults hand.

8. If transistorswere still this size.. It would take up 396 KM2 For a single processor Or 36,644 football pitches!

9. It is predicted that 85% of UK households will have a PC by 2011

10. In Sierra Leone only 27% of the population can read If this school was Sierra Leone then all of year 7,8,9 and 10 would not be able to read...

11. How would your life be different without ICT?

12. Did you know?

13. In 200683% of young people used the internet regularly Compared to 68% of adults aged between 45 and 54

14. But only 15% of over 65’s....

15. The number of people who used online shopping increased by 25% in 2008

16. 25% of high street stores may go out of business in 2009-2010

17. How will over 65’s do their shopping in 2010?

18. Did you know?

19. The average teenage IPod has 1,770 songs on it. 800 of which are illegal

20. 96% of all teenagers copy music 80% say they would pay for a music subscription service

21. On average, a adults IPod has 3,452 songs 64% of songs are never played!

22. 1062 songs never get played How many of them are illegal?

23. A average teenager has enough music to fill 110 vinyl records This would weigh 22Kg

24. Or the same as a 7 year old child!

25. Did you know?

26. It is estimated that in 2005 Google could search 8.2 billion pages. That number will double every 16 months.

27. If this continues then in 2021 the number of pages indexed will be 49,200,000,000 That would be 7 pages for every person on the planet!

28. Google takes about 0.2 seconds to perform a search over billions of pages

29. If you spent 10 minutes looking up information in a library... You could of done 3000 Google searches

30. It is estimated that there are 2 billion searches on Google every day. That is 700,000,000,000 searches every year!

31. According to Google each search uses 1KJ of energy. That is the equivalent of 4,282,655 mars bars per day.

32. Only one in four Africans have access to electricity How can they be part of a digital world?

33. What can we do about it?

34. Did you know?

35. In 2008... 248 million people used the internet in North America 384 million in Europe 578 million in Asia

36. In 2008... 33% of people in Europe have access to the internet But only 14% in Asia

37. 3,476,000,000 of people living in Asia have no internet access

38. Every day 210 billion emails were sent There are 1.3 billion email users in the world

39. That is 161 emails for every email user!

40. 70% of all emails are spam That means 147 billion spam emails are sent every day!

41. That is enough for 21 spam emails for every person on the planet!

42. Did you know?

43. Technology is changing at an exponential rate

44. The digital divide prevents many people making the best use of technology

45. What should we do?

46. What can you do?

47. Did you know? You can make a difference

48. http://laptop.org/en/ http://www.campaignforeducation.org/ Support campaigns like these and make a difference!

49. Did you know? You do now!