7 mind-blowing facts about technology

Jai Sloper
2 min readJun 29, 2022

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Most people are amazed by how technology has changed our lives and made things easier. Here are seven mind-blowing facts about technology that will make you think twice about how we live:

1. We now have more computing power in our pockets than was used to land a man on the moon.

2. The first digital camera was invented in 1975 and it took 23 seconds to capture an image. Today, we can take a photo in less than a second with our phones.

3. We now have the ability to store more information on a single device than ever before. The average person has over 30GB of storage on their smartphone.

4. The average person spends more time interacting with technology than they do sleeping.

5. The first text message was sent in 1992 and it said “Merry Christmas.” Today, over 6 billion text messages are sent every day.

6. The first email was sent in 1971 and it took 10 minutes to send. Today, we can send an email in less than a second.

7. We now have the ability to connect with anyone in the world at any time. There are over 3 billion internet users and 2 billion people on social media.

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Jai Sloper
Jai Sloper

Written by Jai Sloper

I have a passion for coding and I know several languages JavaScript, Python, C#, HTML, php, css and many more, now I want to share my knowledge with everyone.

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