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Posted in Dark
Ages 2.0© under Internet Security
Most everyone in the world is talking
about cellphones, computers and other digital equipment and
applications.
It has always been hard to come by any
facts about how many, and what kind of digital tools are getting
popular, and out into the world at large. So here you go, of the
total world's human population:
Digital Penetration In –
February, 2013
7,018,000,000
(i.e. over 7 billion) 52%
48%
TOTAL WORLD POPULATION
URBAN RURAL
2,330,000,000
33%
INTERNET USERS INTERNET
PENETRATION
1,720,000,000
24%
USERS OF TOP SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL
NETWORK PENETRATION
6,400,000,000
91%
MOBILE SUBSCRIPTIONS MOBILE
PENETRATION
Reference: We
Are Social Singapore, a conversation agency with offices in
Singapore, London, Paris, Milan, Munich Sydney and São Paulo. They
help brands to listen, understand and engage in conversations in
social media. Future
Factors 2013 (a slide show).
I am concerned that with all of our
total current and future reliance on digital techniques and
technology humankind is 'putting its eggs in one basket'. Indeed, we
are relying more on digitization every day, and moving inexorably to
convert most everything else to digital.
If something catastrophic happens to
our digital systems, that will affect civilization and all of mankind
immediately and for a long distance into the future.
Catastrophes a can quite easily be
brought about with cyber war, electrical grid failure, solar flares
striking satellites (and earth), the illness of technologists,
sub-contracting much of our digital work to the lowest cost
suppliers, often not in country, and a host of other factors. I have
covered some of those in Dark
Ages 2.0© - An examination of negative impacts on life on this
earth. Computer hackers, disease, ecological, environmental,
electromagnetic energy, overpopulation, pesticides, solar activity,
viral, etc. previously.
