The following facts were gleaned from "New Work Habits for a
  Radically Changing World"  by Price Pritchett

  * In 1991, for the first time ever, companies spent more money on
    computing and communications gear than the combined moneys spent
    on industrial, mining, farm, and construction equipment.  This
    spending pattern offers hard proof that we have entered a new era.

  * You're in Paris and you decide to use your American Express card.
    Getting credit approval involves a 46,000 mile journey over
    phones and computers.  The job can be completed in 5 seconds!

  * Since 1983, the US work world has added 25 million computers.
    The number of cellular telephone subscribers has jumped from zero
    in 1983 to 16 million by the end of 1993.

  * Close to 19 million people now carry pagers, and almost 12
    billion messages were left in voice mailboxes in 1993 alone.

  * The number of secretaries is down 521,000 just since 1987.

  * There has been more information produced in the last 30 years
    than during the previous 5,000.

  * A weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information
    than the average person was likely to come across in an entire
    lifetime during 17th century England.

  * The information supply available to us is doubling every 5 years.

  * ENIAC, commonly thought of as the first modern computer, was
    built in 1944.  It took up more space than an 18 wheel tractor
    trailer, weighed more than 17 Chevrolet Camaro's, and consumed
    140,000 watts of electricity.  ENIAC could execute a whopping
    5,000 basic arithmetic instructions per second.

  * One of today's popular microcomputers, the 486, is built on a
    tiny piece of silicon about the size of a dime.  It weighs less
    than a packet of Sweet 'N Low, and uses less than 2 watts of
    electricity.  A 486 can execute up to 54 million instructions
    per second.

                                                               


  
* The cost of computing power drops roughly 30 percent every year,
    and microchips are doubling in performance power every 18 months.

  * Let's say you are going to a party, so you pull out some pocket
    change and buy a little greeting card that plays "Happy Birthday"
    when it's opened.  After the party, someone casually tosses the
    card into the trash, throwing away more computing power than
    existed in the entire world before 1950.

  * The home video camera that you use to take pictures of the party
    contains more processing power than the IBM 360, the wonderful
    machine that gave birth to the mainframe computer age.

  * The party gift you give is a system called Saturn, made by Sega,
    the game maker.  It runs on a higher performance processor than
    the original Cray supercomputer, which in it's day was accessible
    to only the most elite physicists.                                  

  * The first practical industrial robot was introduced during the
    1960's.  By 1982 there were approximately 32,000 robots being
    used in the US.  Today there are over 20 million.

  * Between 1960 and 1970, the number of components on a chip doubled
    each year, from 1 in 1960 to 1,000 in 1970.  Since then the
    number of components has doubled every year and one half,
    reaching 100 million 1n 1990, and 1 billion in 1992.

  * Today's average consumers wear more computing power on their
    wrists than existed in the entire world before 1961.

  * Computer power is now 8,000 time less expensive than it was 30
    years ago.

  * If we had similar progress in automotive technology, today you
    could buy a Lexus for about $2.  It would travel at the speed of
    sound, and go about 600 miles on a thimble of gas.

  * The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and
    a dog.  The man will be there to feed the dog.  The dog will be
    there to keep the man from touching the equipment.