Phones > Human Population?

So the current population of humans is at 7 billion and still rising. That's a lot of people! But now imagine a device that was firstly created during the 1970s -1980s outnumber the human population. Of course, we're talking about hand phones! The hand phones that you may or may not have in your pockets, bags, or wherever you keep them, has already or will soon outnumber 7 billion. That's a crazy amount of phones especially when it was made in half a century. Of course it's not that every person will get one, it's that the amount of phones produced is now higher than the human population, which has been around since about 500,000 years ago. Well that's not all! The companies are now trying to increase the Internet speed of phones! So two great and astounding news!

This article teaches me that the world today is largely based on technology. Technology is so important in today's world that now even phones outnumber the human population. Sure, phones are small and doesn't really take a long time to make, but they started making phones about 40 years ago and imagine the amount of time it takes to think of an idea unlike humans, that started 500,000 years ago. Technology is very important today because a lot of our education and almost everything you do, is based on technology. That's how important technology is.

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