Did You Know?

Today in Human Geo we watched this video called "Did You Know?". There are many different versions of it but we watched the one for 2012. It talked about how the world has changed over the years. There were a lot of interesting facts, such as that the top 10 in demand jobs now, did not exist in 2004. That's interesting to me because that means that new jobs people are thinking of just have been coming out of the blue, many new jobs are coming into existence every year and to think about some of them, like cyber security and working at places like YouTube or Google, and how they did not exist or we did not have a reason for them just a few years ago is insane. Another thing in the video said that the number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the population of the planet. That is crazy because it really shows how many times a day people are on their phone communicating that way with people. It's crazy because so many people in the world do not have access to a device that can make texts, and that the people who do , have sent more texts than the actual human race. Just in a day. One last fact we heard in the video was that over the years different things have taken longer to sell (in this case, to sell 50 million of the product). When the radio first came out, it took a long time- 38 years to be exact- to sell 50 million of them, no matter how many people were interested. When the TV came out, it took 13 years. When the internet became available to everyone to use, it only took 4 years to get 50 million users on there. The iPod only took 3 years, and FaceBook- only 2. I think this proves how much more people have become adjusted to technology and how much technology has just become the "norm" for us now a days. This video made me think that I will have many oppertunities for amazing, advanced things in my life. Technology is used constantly around me and by me, that it makes me wonder what is to come next, and how I'm going to be affected by it.