Three things

One:
Otis elevators move the equivalent of the world's population every five days.
A big number.
This from a United Technologies ad in the WSJ.

Two:
Take a Right Brain vs Left Brain creativity test from the Art Institute of Vancouver.
Can we significantly alter our handedness or is this like an SAT score?

Three:
Marc Aronson's article in the School Library Journal about being "technologically literate" arrived just in time for me. He writes:

These students have the skills to locate things on the Internet, but they’re, in fact, technologically illiterate. They precisely do not know how to read—how to make sense of, digest, assimilate, and respond to—the information they find. They can collage together reports, but they can’t write them.

This will help me to focus on the reading, writing, thinking, and problem-solving challenges of my 6th grade "Technology Class" rather than sweating their ability to demonstrate that they can import a "meow" into their PowerPoint report on cats.