Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
Our world is changing at a blinding pace that is accelerating with each passing day.
Thanks to the Internet, information travels at a speed that would have been unimaginable at other times in human history, and our technological capabilities are advancing at a rate that is exponentially increasing. What all of this means is that seismic cultural shifts that used to take decades can now be accomplished in a matter of months or even weeks.
The following are 20 amazing facts about what happens every single minute of every single day in our rapidly changing world…
#1 250 babies will be born, and 113 of them will be born into poverty.
#2 500 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube.
#3 The Earth will travel 1,118 miles around the sun.
#4 McDonald’s will sell 4,500 hamburgers.
#5 Lightning will strike our planet about 6,000 times .
#6 28,500 trees will be cut down.
#7 51,000 applications will be downloaded from Apple’s App Store.
#8 65,000 barrels of oil will be used used.
#9 People will watch 64,444 hours of content on Netflix.
#10 120,673 pounds of edible food will be thrown away in the United States.
#11 $203,596 worth of products will be sold on Amazon.com.
#12 448,800 tweets will be posted on Twitter.
#13 527,760 photos will be shared on Snapchat.
#14 3.3 million posts will be made to Facebook.
#15 3.8 million Google searches will be conducted.
#16 5 million pounds of garbage will be generated.
#17 6 million chemical reactions will happen in each one of our cells.
#18 20.8 million messages will be sent using WhatsApp.
#19 25 million Coca-Cola products will be consumed.
#20 204 million emails will be sent.
So will all of this change lead to a wonderfully positive future for humanity, or will it result in a dystopian nightmare? Only time will tell, but what everyone can agree on is that our world is rapidly becoming a much different place than the world that our parents and grandparents grew up in.
via http://ift.tt/2plYufo Tyler Durden