Making sure everyone is a part of the broadband wave

An article by Navarrow    View Comments

UPDATE – If a picture is really worth 1,000 words, I’m going to guess a video is worth about a million, so I hope you do take five minutes to watch this video about the Exaflood. I’ve been in technology for over a decade now, and it still surprises me how far we’ve come in the realm of data consumption. I originally made mention of this video in a an earlier post here.

This video started me to thinking, so i found some more data to back up the case that it’s making…

A few days ago, Forbes.com contributor Oliver J. Chiang provided some very interesting numbers about how our lives have become increasingly digital during the last decade. For instance, when we started the new decade, about 6.3 percent of the households in the U.S. had a broadband connection; now that number has increased to 63 percent and is continuing to grow rapidly.

Anyone who has looked at their inbox today won’t be surprised by this one – in 2000, about 12 billion e-mails were sent each day, and now it is closer to 247 billion (and I would say they are more relevant as progress has been made in limiting spam.).  And in 2000, there were fewer than 100,000 blogs, and at the end of 2008 there were an estimated 133 million blogs (so thanks for reading mine)!  Could we begin to guess what these numbers will look like in 2020?

Here’s the link to the Forbes.com story for additional statistics that make it clear that we will continue to put more stress on our networks and data-delivery capabilities in the next decade. We all have begun to realize how important the Internet and access to all the opportunities it avails to us are. We now have to make sure that those opportunities are always available equally to everyone.