{"id":39171,"date":"2015-05-07T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massarate.ma\/?p=39171"},"modified":"2015-05-07T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T10:52:25","slug":"then-and-now-8-fun-examples-of-exponential-change-from-the-last-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.massarate.ma\/then-and-now-8-fun-examples-of-exponential-change-from-the-last-decade.html","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now: 8 Fun Examples of Exponential Change From the Last Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"Then$ <\/p>\n

It’s hard to believe, but\u2026<\/p>\n

Ten years ago…<\/h2>\n
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The first video was uploaded to YouTube.<\/li>\n
Facebook, then just a year old, dropped “the” from its old URL “thefacebook.com” after acquiring “facebook.com” for $200K.<\/li>\n
An early prototype of an autonomous car completed the DARPA Grand Challenge for the first time.<\/li>\n
The term “drone” meant a military weapon system.<\/li>\n
Bitcoin and blockchain didn’t exist, and wouldn’t be created for three more years.<\/li>\n
Android was a small startup that Google had just acquired.<\/li>\n
There were 6.4 billion humans on Earth, only ~1 billion were online, and none of them had heard of Uber or AirBnb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Today…<\/h2>\n
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YouTube has more than a billion users who watch hundreds of millions of hours of video every day. Three hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.<\/li>\n
Facebook has 1.4 billion users from every country on Earth.<\/li>\n
Every major car manufacturer is working on an autonomous model, and Google’s autonomous cars have logged over 1 million miles driving themselves.<\/li>\n
Drones are now used by children, can be purchased at prices ranging from $50 to $1,500. The largest consumer drone company DJI (which was started in 2006) is valued at $10 billion.<\/li>\n
Bitcoin and blockchain companies have raised hundreds of millions in venture capital and are poised to be potentially as disruptive as the Internet itself.<\/li>\n
Google now has over 1 billion active Android users.<\/li>\n
Today, there are close to 7.4 billion humans on Earth, and ~3 billion are now online.<\/li>\n
Uber, which was started in 2009, is valued at over $40 billion, and AirBnb, started in 2007, valued over $20 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
These are only a few of the fun examples of exponential change from the last decade.\u00a0The question is: what will the world look like a decade from now?\u00a0In a few days, I will be releasing an article I wrote for the Huffington Post’s 10-year anniversary.\u00a0It contains a few of my predictions for the next 10 years, and an explanation as to why I believe we are living in the most exciting time ever. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n
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