Here’s yet another dramatic metric that illustrates the radical changes technology is producing. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, more than half the globe now owns cell phones:
The number of mobile-phone users will overtake the number of nonusers for the first time, according to the U.N. telecoms agency. Simply put, that means more than half the people on the planet now have cell phones (versus 12% in 2000).
It used to take a decade before such predictions proved true, even recently. “Wow” is all I can say at the moment. The consequences of this tipping point are extraordinary to comprehend.