Did You Know 3.0
Jan 13th, 2009
A great video that highlights the revolutionary ‘quickening’ of culture and technology. Some of its mind-blowing facts and extrapolations:
- There are 200 million registered users on MySpace. If MySpace were a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world.
- 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
- The first commercial SMS message was sent in December 1992. Today, the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet.
- The number of internet devices in 1984 was 100. Today, it’s 1,000,000,000.
- It took radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million. Television reached the same number of people in 13 years. Internet in 4. The iPod in 3. Facebook in 2.



Wow. Good stuff.
I like the part about the average person having 10-14 jobs by the age of 38. I’ve passed that probably within the last 4 years. And I’m 25.