15 MOST SHOCKING TECHNOLOGY FACTS YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF

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

Those thin plastic disks could contain up to 45 minutes of music, which already seemed like a lot. Now we can have 10 hours of music on a single device.

3. Mobile phones

Out of 7.1 billion people on this planet more than 5 billion own a mobile phone but only 3.5 billion use a toothbrush. Incredibly revealing truth about us.

4. YouTube fans

 

The amount of data on YouTube is impressive - every minute new 100 hours worth of videos are uploaded on the site.

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. 

Originally posted on Interesting Engineering