By: Peter Gasca
“In just 10 years time, we have more people connected to the internet via a hand held computing device than existed on earth in 1900.”
It is no secret we live in a very flat world (figuratively speaking). We are connected through technology to all parts of the world, and the wealth of information available online is almost unfathomable.
While you ponder that thought, allow yourself to consider these statistics:
Global population:
- 2017: 7.53 billlion
- 1900: 1.65 billion
That is a staggering 350 percent increase in just 117 years. Maybe more amazing is that estimates for the global population at the turn of the next century could be more than 11 billion.
Number of people globally connected to the internet:
- 2017: 3.83 billion
- 1960: 0
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