About those “data that never sleeps”

The year 2020, and especially the severe hurdles of the Corona pandemic, has reactivated attention to the contemporary question, with its vast ramifications and unknown horizons: How have technology and data changed the world? This question, which is not new, has occupied observers and researchers for years, and the answers were no clearer than they are now, at the end of a year filled with radical and articulate facts. Events that changed the course of life on a confusing surface, environmentally, socially, economically and politically.

The responses on the way of life after the Corona pandemic were related to reports issued in 2020 on the volume of electronic data shared by users of the World Wide Web. For example, the report “Data never sleeps”, published by Domo, a leading research company, showed how much data is generated every minute via the Internet. The report, which publishes a graph that deals with the numbers of many global websites, social networks and messaging applications, leads to the crystallization of the new reality we have entered: a new era in our newspapers as people, in the that technology and data play a fundamental role.
The number of Internet users worldwide, according to the report, is 4.57 billion people, an increase of 6% compared to last year. The report also indicated that 59% of the total world population uses the Internet.
In the details of the graph that contains the report, users of the WhatsApp application, for example, send about 41,666,667 messages per minute, 1,388,889 people make a video call and 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube at the same time.
As for other social networks, in just one minute 147,000 photos are being shared through Facebook and Twitter has 319 new users. Instagram users also post 347,222 “stories,” while commercial account ads have 138,889 potential consumer visits.
The numbers show 404,444 hours of streaming on Netflix, as well as the TikTok app download 2,704 times per minute.
Of course, apps and sites for meetings and distance learning had their abundant data flow this year. The Zoom app hosted 208,333 people per minute, while Microsoft Team earned more than 50,000 subscribers. And in an era where so many people have lost their jobs, 69,444 job applications were submitted via LinkedIn every minute of 2020.
The electronic wheel arches have recorded a remarkable acceleration in the last twenty years. In the period 1991 to the present, the emergence of text messages (1992), Apple (1993), DVD (1995), USB (1996), Netflix (1997), Google search (1998), Bluetooth (2000) , iPad (2001) and Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), Twitter (2006), electronic currency (2009) … the aforementioned, for example, is not limited to, it had a great impact on the course of development of the life. Humans. These technological developments created a new hypothetical reality, which became evident when the Corona virus spread, and forced all of humanity to adopt virtual communication, exclusively. Even some societies that are late to take the wheel of technology find it difficult to overcome the social disconnect imposed on them.
What we are witnessing today is a precedent, it will change life patterns a lot. Total confidence in technology and its tools is a reality, which has been accelerated by the virus outbreak. The great digital transformation was inevitable, but it was moderating. The need for humans to continue to communicate has shortened the lifespan of the transformation path. And here we are today The great challenge: What sectors and societies will survive and survive? And which one will lose the battle for survival against the great evolution and the perishable ghoul?