- M.I.T. has developed a durable wireless laptop computer made for use in the developing world. As part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, individuals in the United States and Canada can buy one laptop for themselves and one for a child in a developing country for $400. [8]
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- Almost 100 percent of public schools in the US have internet access. Of these, 97 percent use a high-speed broadband connection, up from 85 percent in 2001. [9]
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- In the rankings of the most desirable destinations for companies to outsource jobs, the US came in 20th, behind countries such as Slovakia, Vietnam, and Jordan. [10]
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- In 2008, blog search engine Technorati estimated that there were 184 million blogs. [11]
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- In 2015, 80 percent of people currently in the workforce will still be working. However, by that time 80 percent of technologies in use today will have been replaced, meaning that workers will need to be retrained. [12]
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- From the early 1980s to 2003, before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, American news coverage of foreign affairs dropped by two-thirds. [13]
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- The People’s Republic of China has 50,000 government workers monitoring and censoring the internet. [14]
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- William Nordhaus, an economist at Yale University, calculated that fewer than 30% of goods and services consumed at the end of the 20th century were variants of goods and services produced 100 years earlier. [15]
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- 6 in 10 people have a cell phone subscription. [16]
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