{"id":14251,"date":"2015-05-16T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:13","slug":"then-and-now-8-fun-examples-of-exponential-change-from-the-last-decade-by-peter-diamandis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/then-and-now-8-fun-examples-of-exponential-change-from-the-last-decade-by-peter-diamandis","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now: 8 Fun Examples of Exponential Change From the Last Decade \u2014 By Peter Diamandis SingularityHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">It\u2019s hard to believe, but\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Ten years ago\u2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first video was uploaded to YouTube.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook, then just a year old, dropped \u201cthe\u201d from its old URL <a href=\"http:\/\/\"thefacebook.com\"\">\u201cthefacebook.com\u201d<\/a> after acquiring <a href=\"http:\/\/\"facebook.com\"\">\u201cfacebook.com\u201d<\/a> for $200K.<\/li>\n<li>An early prototype of an autonomous car completed the DARPA Grand Challenge for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>The term \u201cdrone\u201d meant a military weapon system.<\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin and blockchain didn\u2019t exist, and wouldn\u2019t be created for three more years.<\/li>\n<li>Android was a small startup that Google had just acquired.<\/li>\n<li>There were 6.4 billion humans on Earth, only ~1 billion were online, and none of them had heard of Uber or AirBnb. <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/05\/04\/then-and-now-8-fun-examples-of-exponential-change-from-the-last-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe, but\u2026 Ten years ago\u2026 The first video was uploaded to YouTube. Facebook, then just a year old, dropped \u201cthe\u201d from its old URL \u201cthefacebook.com\u201d after acquiring \u201cfacebook.com\u201d for $200K. An early prototype of an autonomous car completed the DARPA Grand Challenge for the first time. The term \u201cdrone\u201d meant a military [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-human-trajectories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55424,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions\/55424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}