1.From cassette players to MP3s
Just
compare these massive cassette players people used to carry around with
tiny iPods you can easily put in your pocket now. The only way of
getting new music back in the day would be by buying a new cassette,
sadly.
2.Vinyl
3. Mobile phones
4. YouTube fans
5. What do we do with our lives?
An average 21-yea-old would have already spent more then 10,000 hours on a mobile phone and sent over 250,000 texts and emails.
6.Phone apps
About 500 apps are added to
Windows Phone Store on a daily basis. And you still complain there are
no good apps available. Search better!
7. Mobile phone progression
The phones
development has made a progression towards smaller compact phone and now
it seems like 'the bigger the better' is the new slogan.
8. Facebook users
Facebook has 1.59 billion
active monthly users. China is the most populated country on Earth and
it still has only 1.37 billion citizens.
9.Two TV channels
There were only 2 TV
station back in the day with black-and-whites shows running on a regular
basis. Now there are hundreds of different channels and people still
complain they have nothing to watch.
10. Long-distance calls
Remember calling
your friends and trying to move to another room so your parents wouldn't
hear but the cable was too short? Now we rarely call anyone and phone
are used for Internet and apps more than for communication purposes.
11. Internet generation
It took only 4 years
for the Internet to reach 50 million users. For comparison, it took
long 38 years for radio to get to the same level.
12. Computer usage
An average person blinks only 7 times a minute when sitting in front of a computer compared with a healthy normal 20.
13. Google power
Google uses around 15
billion kWh of electricity per year. That is even more than most
countries! But to be fair, the company also uses their own solar panels
to produce power.
14. Big data
Big data is a thing for a
reason - there will be more data created in the next few years than in
the whole history of human existence until 21st century.
15. Humans vs. computers
There are still
fights about whether chess can be considered a sport but a computer says
winning it is easier than eating an M&Ms. Since 2005 no humans has
won a chess competition against a computer.
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