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Fact: Technology

51% of all online adults listen to music online, compared with 34% the last time this question was asked, in June 2004. While Millennials used to be by far the most avid listeners, Gen Xers and Younger Boomers are catching up.
–Pew Research Center American Life Project, May 2012
About one third (32%) of all teenagers who use the Internet say they have been targets of a range of annoying and potentially menacing online activities.
–Pew Research Center American Life Project, May 2012
2013 will mark the 40th anniversary of the first handheld mobile phone call.  That call was made on a phone that weighed over two pounds and cost nearly $4,000, and had a battery life of about 30 minutes.
–Networked World, April 2012
80 percent of young adults between 18 and 29 are wireless Internet users, accessing the Web on laptops, netbooks, cell phones, game consoles, and e-readers.
—Pew Internet and American Life Project
Retail giant Wal-Mart feeds more than 1m transactions an hour into databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes.1 Facebook’s 750m users create an average of 90 pieces of content each month.2 And an average of 294bn e-mails are sent every day.
—SAS, September 2011
Nearly 9-in-10 smartphone owners have used their phones in the past 30 days to perform a real-time query to help them arrange meetings with friends, solve problems or find information to settle an argument.
—Pew Research Center, May 2012
Some 45% of employed Americans report doing at least some work from home and 18% of working Americans say they do job-related tasks at home almost daily.
–Pew Research Center American Life Project, May 2012
More than three-quarters of college presidents (77%) report that their institutions now offer online courses, and college presidents predict substantial growth in online learning: 15% say most of their current undergraduate students have taken a class online, 50% predict that ten years from now most of their students will take classes online.
–Pew Research Center American Life Project, May 2012
The profile of the iPhone user is similar, but skews even higher for the more affluent (twice as many in the $100k or more income group). A higher percentage of iPhone users also use the device for a mix of personal and business purposes (index of 160 for the iPhone compared to 220 for all smartphones).
—Nielsen Company
Cisco IBSG predicts the number of Internet-connected things will reach 50 billion by 2020, which equates to more than six devices for every person on Earth.
— Network World, July 2011