Can you guess how much data one Earthling generates per day?

There are currently seven to eight billion people on planet Earth. Try to imagine that each of them has an Internet connection on a mobile phone, computer or any other device and evenly contributes to the total load worldwide networks. Can you estimate how much such an average Earthling will generate into the Internet in one day? We won’t strain you, it is about 1.5 gigabytes.

At least that’s what Huawei Chairman Liang Hua said, who spoke on the subject at a recent China Mobile Global Partner conference on building 5G networks. Does this number seem huge to you? No wonder. They are in the overall statistics for all mankind devices that far exceed the normal volume are also included leaving a home computer or even a cell phone. For example one autonomous vehicle he is said to take care of sending in a single day 64 terabytes of data.

As these figures were voiced on the occasion of the debate on the construction of new technologies, a comparison with the past is appropriate. In 1992, the world’s population reportedly generated just 100 gigabytes of data per day. That’s an incredible difference. Liang Hua also mentioned in his speech that, for example, the (pre) loading of a typical 1GB HD movie was reduced from three seconds to half a second thanks to 5G. And in the future, we can count on, for example, the fact that, thanks to higher speeds, it will be mainly constantly increasing the maximum resolution.

Do you have any idea how much data you will generate per day?

Source: hcentral