10. Transportation (includes taxis, limos, ambulances, hearses and other vehicles for hire)
9. Apparal Stores
8. Restraunts and Bars
7. Communications
6. Travel Agencies and Tour Operators
5. Food Stores (supermarkets, fruit and vegetable stands, bakeries and other specialty food sellers)
4. Personal Services (coin-operated laundries, dry cleaners, barber shops, shoe-repair shops and the like)
3. Auto Repair
2. Trucking
1. Money Services Businesses (check-cashing outfits, currency dealers and issuers of travelers’ checks)
On the positive side here are some options for the faint of heart: Real Estate — including landlords, agents and developers, professional services and licensed trades.

• TREND # 1: Faster speed through third-generation (3G) broadband networks and new WiMax networks.
  -3G is making progress, but even more exciting is the role out of 3.5G with HSPD technology, making DSL and Cable broadband speeds available over a wireless network.
• TREND # 2: Phones are becoming portable multimedia entertainment centers!
  -We have seen this become reality with camera phones and increasing with digital TV over 3G networks. Providing content for these devices is going to become a big business.
• TREND # 3: Log onto the Web from anywhere with the emergence of citywide Wi-Fi networks.
  -In the US we hear of many big cities rollling out plans for these services, but it is also happening in many small cities in the US and Europe alike. True mobility is on its way!!
• TREND # 4: Wireless gaming among multiple players over a mobile cell network.
  -Mobile gaming generated $203 million in revenue last year. But mobile gaming is expected to generate as much as $1.8 billion dollars by 2009. Mobile gaming will follow the same trend in the gaming industry of movement towards multi player games over the mobile network.
• TREND # 5: Have more fun with increasingly sophisticated downloadable ringtones.
  -The ringtone market is set to double to $6 Billion Dollars worldwide by 2008.

• If you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you.
• The smartest top 25% of people in China represents a population greater than all of North America.
• China will soon have? more english speakers in their population than any other country in the world.
• In the next eight minutes, 60 babies will be born in America. 351 will be born in India.
• By the age of 38 you will have had between 10 and 14 jobs.
• 1 in 4 Americans are working in the first year of their current job.
• The U.S. ranks 20th in the world for broadband penetration.
• In 2002? Nintendo invested more in R&D than the federal government? (excludes military R&D).
• 1 in 8 married U.S. couples met online.
• There are 2.7 billion searches on Google each month. Where were these questions addressed to? before Google?
• There are more than 6 billion sms messages sent everyday.
• There are 540,000 words in the english language. Five times more than there were in 1800.
• 3,000 books are published daily.
• More knowledge exists in one week of the New York Times than a person was able to access in their entire lifetime in the 1800’s.
• 1.5 exabytes of information will be created this year. That’s more than was created in the previous 5,000 years.
• What a college freshman learns this year will be outdated by his junior year of college.
• Fiber optics capacity is tripling every six months.
• The $100 laptop project will ship 50 to 100 million laptops per year to people in underdeveloped countries. There were 47 million laptops shipped world wide last year.
• By 2023 a $1000 computer will exceed the capacity of the human brain.
• By 2047 a $1000 computer will exceed the capacity of the human race.

The world is changing, with it comes opportunity … and often a lot of fear. How are you going to face it?

I have signed up to be a beta tester. I have been anxiously awaiting the adoption of IP TV and look forward to testing this potential solution.