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The number of Google searches has increased from 2.7 billion in 2006 to 31 billion today.

How we use technology to seek and transmit information and how it has changed exponentially is demonstrated by the fact that the first commercial text was sent in December 1992 whereas today, the total number of text messages sent every day exceeds the total population of the planet.

A comparison of different type of broadcast technology and the time it takes to reach a market audience of 50 million:

Radio: 38 years

TV: 13 years

Internet: 4 years

iPod: 3 years

Facebook: 2 years

The number of internet devices has multiplied from 1,000 in 1984 to 1,000,000 in 1992 to 1,000,000,000 in 2008

YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world. While viewing this video, 100+ hours of video is being uploaded to YouTube.

Wiki is a Hawaiian term for “quick”. Wikipedia has over 15 million articles with an accuracy equivalent to Encyclopedia Britannica. 78% of the articles are in languages other than English. If you were paid $1 for every article posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $1,712.32 per hour.

There are over 200,000 blogs.

Every second, 100,000 tweets are sent; 684.478 items are shared on Facebook; 2 million searches are made on Google; 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube; 47,000 apps are downloaded from app stores; 3,600 instagram photos are shared; 571 websites are created; $272,000 is spent online.

Bill Schrader said, “Almost overnight, the Internet has gone from a technical wonder to a business must”.

Rupert Murdoch said, “The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years”.