The Networked Future
An interesting presentation titled Hyperpolitics, American Style given at Personal Democracy Forum on June 24, 2008, provides some interesting factoids about human networking, past, present and future. Full video below, but first some interesting data shared during the presentation:
- Half of all people on earth have mobile phones
- It took one decade to go from 50% of people not having phones, period, to 50% having a mobile phone
- It took one decade to get to 1 billion mobile users
- It took four years to get to 2 billion mobile users
- It took 18 months to get to 3 billion mobile users
- Some time in 2010-2011 there will be 5.1 billion mobile users (75% of humanity)
- 43 billion text messages were sent last year
Here's the video:
