Cool tech often gets adopted by porn and gambling before more mainstream uses.
Porn was the launchpad for video streaming, mobile-enabled sites, VR, and (unfortunately) pop-up ad technologies.
With that said, the next chart surprised me. It shows the number of years it took for various products to gain 50 million users.
Pornhub tracks data like its business depends on it. Well, it is the number one site for pornography. What does that mean? In 2018, over 5,517,700,000 hours of porn was watched on their site. That’s approximately 6,298 centuries of video.
Moreover, last year, it got 33.5 BILLION visits. That’s 1,064 people a second, or 92 million a day. To put that in perspective, that's more people than live in the entire country of Germany.
Here are some additional factoids about its use.
- 4403 Petabytes of data transferred (574 MB of data for every person on earth)
- Consumed more bandwidth than the entire internet in 2002
- Stormy Daniels was the number 1 "trend" search in 2018 (followed by Fortnite ...)
- 4k ultra-hd overtook 1080p in search trends
via Pornhub
For the full list of stats click here.
They are so popular, it is almost obscene.
A Quick Visit to Cuba
I went to Havana with a diverse group of business people, financial professionals and representatives from the US Fed.
Here is a photo taken with some of the classic cars that proudly dominate the roads despite cheaper Russian and Chinese alternatives.
The city was beautiful … dirty and broken, for sure … but still beautiful. Here is a view from my hotel room.
I commented that it was almost like seeing a severely wounded elephant. You can tell that it's hurt (and barely a shadow of its old self). Nevertheless, you can see the amazing bone structure. It is easy to imagine what it once was.
In Cuba, the geography and the architecture are amazing. However, money hasn't been spent on the upkeep. Even though people live there, it seems surreal (almost like a post-apocalyptic wasteland).
In the story of Exodus, the Jews spent 40 years wandering the desert after escaping from Egypt. That means two generations of people, who didn't remember life as slaves, were ultimately the ones who entered the “Promised Land”.
On some level, that's how Cuba is now. Most inhabitants weren’t born (or can’t remember) the 1960s. They have known nothing but this.
Cuba is an interesting place … and I’d bet that it has an interesting future.
The “lack” had a side effect. It produced a mutation. A portion of society grew more resourceful and resilient.
Like natural selection … nature finds a way.
The rules change, the players change, even the game itself changes ... That is how new ideas and new leaders emerge.
Sometimes, almost no one notices. Sometimes they do.
Ultimately, change remains the only constant.
Onwards!
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