The Digital Decade
Oliver Chiang serves up a bunch of good metrics on the digital decade that was. Here are a few:
– Number of e-mails sent per day in 2000: 12 billion
– Number of e-mails sent per day in 2009: 247 billion
– Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2000: $105 million
– Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2009: $19.5 billion
– Number of text messages sent in the U.S. per day in June 2000: 400,000
– Number of text messages sent in the U.S. per day in June 2009: 4.5 billion
– Number of pages indexed by Google in 2000: 1 billion
– Number of pages indexed by Google in 2008: 1 trillion
– Amount of hard-disk space $300 could buy in 2000: 20 to 30 gigabytes
– Amount of hard-disk space $300 could buy in 2009: 2,000 gigabytes (2 terabytes)
Last one needs to be between 2 to 3 terabytes. Now you can buy a 1.5 TB drive for $109. I think we could probably buy close to 4 TB for that price, but you see what I mean.
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