By the time our students enter the workforce over 60% of all workers will be in the data services industry, i.e. gathering, processing, retrieving, or analyzing information.
 

Today, over two-thirds of all workers are in a service industry where knowledge is becoming our most valued product.
 

There has been more information produced in the last 30 years than the previous 5000.
 

A weekday copy of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to encounter in a lifetime just 200 years ago.
 

Today a person wears more computing power on their wrist than existed in the entire world just forty years ago.
 

Computing power today is 8000 times less costly than it was thirty years ago. If the automobile industry was equally as progressive a high end Lexus would cost about $2, and could travel 600 miles on a thimble of gasoline.