2. In 1990, one million
people worldwide
owned a mobile
phone. Today, there
are around 6 billion
in circulation.
3. Humans will create
more information in
the form of data in
the next two days
than was created in
all of history up until
the year 2003.
4. No human has won a
chess tournament
against a high-spec
computer since 2005!
5. Every two minutes,
we take as many
photos as all of
humanity took
during 1800s.
In 2014 alone,
humanity will take
880 billion photos.
That's 123 photos for
every person on
Earth.
6. In 1999, it took
Google one month to
crawl and build an
index of about 50
million pages.
In 2012, the same
task was
accomplished in less
than one minute!
16. Automation of
Knowledge Work
The Internet of Things
Cloud Technology
Advanced RoboticsMobile Internet
Autonomous and Near-
Autonomous Vehicles
Energy Storage
3D Printing
Advanced Materials
Next-Generation
Genomics
Renewable Energy
Advanced Oil and
Gas Exploration
and Recovery
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
From Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy,
McKinsey Global Institute, May 2013