We are living in exponential times!
Posted on November 16th, 2008 by MichaelNotwithstanding the current dramatic evolution of global financial institutions, in 2009 there will be more business opportunities than any previous year of your own business lifetime.
I’ve had two best-sellers which address these issues: Software For Your Brain and NewSell.
In 2000, I published The X10 Memeplex: Multiply Your Business By Ten! This X10 book showed how business leaders must escape from the traditional 10% growth rate and graduate their business to the X10 growth rate by harnessing the brainpower of their stakeholders.
The X10 book shows that we live in exponential times.
Did you know, for example, that:
• China will soon become the #1 English speaking company in the world
• 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ is greater than the total US population.
• The top ten in-demand jobs in 2010 did not yet exist in 2004.
• We are currently preparing kids for jobs that don’t yet exist using technologies that haven’t yet been invented in order to solve problems that we don’t know are problems yet.
• 1 in 8 weddings in the US in 2007 were couples who met online.
• There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace which if it were a country, MySpace would be the 5th largest in the world between Indonesia and Brazil.
• Today, there are 31 billion googlers every month. In 2006, there were 2.7 billion.
• The first customer to receive a commercial SMS text message was in December 1992. In December 2008 the number of text messages sent and received every day will exceed the total population of Planet Earth.
• Speaking of commercial communication, how long has it taken evolving technologies to reach an audience of 50 million?
- RADIO took 38 years.
- TV took 13 years.
- WWW took 4 years.
- iPod took 3 years.
- Facebook took 2 years.
• In 1984 there were 1000 internet devices. In 1992 there were 1000.000 internet devices. In 2008 there are 1,000,000,000 internet devices.
• A week’s worth of The Melbourne Age contains more information today than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century. In 2008 the amount of unique information generated will be more than all the information of the last 5000 years.
• Because the amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years, year 12 students starting a 4 year technical degree in 2009 will find that 50% of what they learn next year will already be outdated on Graduation Day by the time they finish their degree.
• NTT Japan has already developed a fibre optic cable that sucks 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fibre. That’s the equivalent of 2,660 CDs or 210 million phone calls EVERY SECOND! These staggering communications numbers are tripling every 6 months and will do so for the next 10 years.
• By 2013–in just 5 years–a hypercomputer will be built (probably by IBM) that will surpass the computational capabilities of the human brain.
• In 40 years it is predicted that a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.
• While you were reading this message 67 babies were born in the US, 274 babies were born in China, 395 babies were born in India and 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.
The big question is: What does this mean to you, to your clients, and to their customers?
In my NEWSELL presentations I discuss these questions with my audiences and I show them how to use the NEWSELL strategy to maximise their conversations with their customers and to get their team to make the most of these exponential times. Newsell is now the fastest growing sales strategy in the world.
