Summer 2007

Theme: Shift Happens

We have given our summer program the theme of "Shift Happens", which is taken from a recent YouTube video created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod on Globalization and The Information Age.

http://www.youtube.com/v/ljbI-363A2Q&rel=1

Some interesting facts from the video:
1. The largest English-speaking country in the world will soon be----China.

2. 50% of what a college freshman student in computer science learns will be obsolete by the time she is a junior.

3. 1 out of every 8 marriages today involve a couple who met online.

4. More text messages are distributed every day than the number of humans on earth.