Technology has forever changed our lives and our world more than you know. Here are some numbers to put that fact into perspective:

  1. About 4 billion people worldwide own a mobile phone, but only 3.5 billion people own a toothbrush.
  1. Computers and other electronics account for 220,000 tons of annual trash in the U.S. alone.
  1. About 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
  1. Around 100 billion e-mails traverse the Internet every day, and about 95% of those messages go straight to spam folders.
  1. Over 1 million children can say their parents met on Match.com