- Trillions of dollars in projected online business-to-business sales in 2002: 1.3
- Increase in Americans' exposure to advertising between 1971 and 1991: 6x
- Percentage of stress-related visits to physicians: 75 to 90
- Increase in meat consumption during the last population doubling: 4x
- Species of diseases: 250
- Species of weeds: 220
- Percentage of grain fed to livestock: 40
- Number of trees it takes to print the Sunday New York Times: 3200
- Lines of code in the average electronic toothbrush: 3000
- Millions of billions of calculations per second in the human brain: 20
- Billions of embedded processors sold in 1998: 4.8
- Percentage of embedded processors intended for PCs in 1998: 2.5
- Number of embedded chips in the typical family car: 20
- Number of microprocessors in the typical American household: 40
- Size in $billions that the Internet economy will reach in 2000: 850
- Projected percentage annual SOC (system on chip)market growth through 2004:31
- Projected billions of SOC units to be sold in 2004: 1.3
- Position of consumer electronics among fastest-growing SOC market segments: 1
- Position of communications products among largest volume SOC market segments: 1
- Projected size of home networking chipset market in $millions by 2004: 669
SOURCES : 1-14, Understanding, by Richard Saul Wurman <http://www.understandingusa.com>; 15, Cisco, sourcing the University of Texas, June 2000; 16-20 Cahners In-Stat Group <http://www.instat.com>.