Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day - Technology

Past Number of the Day articles relating to technology:

• 42 percent of voters believe technology and social media companies undermine positive culture in America  (July 19, 2021)
• 45 percent of workers using Zoom calls or other video conferencing platforms  (June 5, 2020)
• 2 billion dollars spent on facial recognition technology last year  (March 17, 2020)
• 2 billion dollars spent on facial recognition technology last year  (March 16, 2020)
• 50.1% of time online is spent on a mobile device  (March 12, 2020)
• 3.8 billion people worldwide use social media  (March 11, 2020)
• 3.5 billion dollars lost to internet crime  (February 25, 2020)
• 3 tech companies valued at over a trillion dollars  (January 22, 2020)
• 63 percent of American adults say it’s impossible to go through daily life without government collecting data on them  (December 26, 2019)
• 770 million surveillance cameras around the world  (December 13, 2019)
• 22 percent of Americans know a lot about Twitter banning political ads  (November 19, 2019)
• 23 percent of voters fear federal government more than tech companies  (October 2, 2019)
• 42 percent of voters very concerned that tech companies will abuse facial recognition technology  (September 30, 2019)
• 80 years ago today Orville Wright’s birthday was declared National Aviation Day  (August 19, 2019)
• 41 years ago today the idea of ESPN was born  (August 16, 2019)
• 88 percent of television viewers use a second digital device while watching  (June 25, 2019)
• 51 percent of advertising goes to digital platforms  (June 20, 2019)
• 31 percent of voters believe Facebook has been good for the United States  (June 11, 2019)
• 37 percent of voters believe NASA will send people to the moon before private companies  (May 21, 2019)
• 29% of American adults would feel safe riding in a self-driving car  (May 17, 2019)
• 10 percent of American adults don’t use the internet  (April 26, 2019)
• 53 percent of voters fear that automation and robotics will lead to mass unemployment  (April 25, 2019)
• 45 percent of voters believe social media platforms good for U.S.  (April 22, 2019)
• 1,860 Walmart stores getting floor-scrubbing robots  (April 16, 2019)
• 52% of U.S. voters think Facebook will go out of business within 25 years  (March 25, 2019)
• 2,036,296 miles covered by self-driving cars in California last year  (February 28, 2019)
• 25 miles per hour: speed for self-driving delivery vehicles  (January 10, 2019)
• 180,000 people will attend the Consumer Electronics Show this week  (January 8, 2019)
• 7 of the top 10 iPhone & iPad apps were video streaming or sharing services  (December 26, 2018)
• 95 percent of young teens have access to a smartphone  (December 12, 2018)
• 375 million workers worldwide may need to change occupations due to artificial intelligence  (November 20, 2018)
• 1 trillion humans in galaxy envisioned by Jeff Bezos  (October 18, 2018)
• 13.9 billion dollars: private investment in space this century  (October 8, 2018)
• 2,000,000 Americans have severe heart failure  (September 26, 2018)
• 3,000 cashierless stores planned by Amazon  (September 24, 2018)
• 2-meter-long unmanned boat crosses Atlantic  (September 11, 2018)
• 7,000 dollars for painting created by artificial intelligence  (August 27, 2018)
• 4 tech products in 70% of U.S. households  (August 16, 2018)
• 58 percent of U.S. adults often get news on mobile device  (July 24, 2018)
• 84 percent reduction in costs to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere  (June 14, 2018)
• 66 percent of business software on PCs in China is unlicensed and unlawfully used  (June 13, 2018)
• 55 million Americans will make in-store payments by smartphone this year  (June 7, 2018)
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• 49 percent of American adults say home broadband service is essential  (May 23, 2018)
• 53 percent of American adults expect driverless cars to be common within a decade  (May 21, 2018)
• 50 percent of 2018 U.S. advertising sales will be on digital platforms  (May 16, 2018)
• 22 states have passed laws concerning self-driving vehicles  (May 9, 2018)
• 24 percent of American adults say they’ll never use a self-driving car  (April 19, 2018)
• 18.7 million U.S. homes have smart speakers  (April 17, 2018)
• 11 percent of Americans don’t use the internet  (March 14, 2018)
• 88% of young adults use social media platforms; just 37% of seniors do the same  (March 9, 2018)
• 47 percent of parents worried their children are addicted to mobile device  (February 27, 2018)
• 27.4 billion dollars invested in fintech startups during 2017  (February 23, 2018)
• 8 million Apple Watches sold in 4th Quarter 2017, topping sale of Swiss watches  (February 20, 2018)
• 94 percent of IT professionals expect increase in mobile security attacks  (February 16, 2018)
• 2.7 million cord-cutters dropped cable in first nine months of 2017  (January 5, 2018)
• 7 percent of Americans think it’s very likely their job will be replaced by automation  (January 3, 2018)
• 21 million new jobs created by the robot revolution  (November 21, 2017)
• 28 percent of American adults use same password for most or all online accounts  (October 23, 2017)
• 40 percent of cloud computing market controlled by Amazon  (October 17, 2017)
• 11.2 million farm jobs lost in U.S. during 20th century  (September 12, 2017)
• 22,949 students will graduate from coding boot camps this year  (September 5, 2017)
• $17.7 billion spent on video games in U.S.  (August 25, 2017)
• 354 million downloads of top 10 Android apps in July  (August 18, 2017)
• 86% of food service jobs at high risk of being automated by 2030  (August 2, 2017)
• 19 fatal airplane accidents in 2016; second-safest year ever  (July 21, 2017)
• 49 hours of streaming video content watched in average OTT home in a month  (July 13, 2017)
• 10 years ago today, the first iPhone was released—the most revolutionary product ever  (June 29, 2017)
• 32,242,443 public interactions with police could be eliminated by self-driving cars  (June 27, 2017)
• 51 million Netflix subscribers—surpasses cable for first time  (June 21, 2017)
• 17.6 billion dollars of person-to-person payments handled by Venmo in 2016  (June 15, 2017)
• 19% of those switching banks joined an online or virtual bank  (June 2, 2017)
• 50.8 percent of American homes do not have landlines  (May 19, 2017)
• 9 apps used per day by smartphone users  (May 18, 2017)
• 29.6 billion dollars spent annually on tax preparation fees and software  (April 17, 2017)
• 20 percent of Americans buy groceries from online-only stores  (April 12, 2017)
• 11.2 years: Average age of U.S. cars, will slow adoption of driverless cars  (April 11, 2017)
• $25 Billion: Annual Spending to Store Paper Records in the Digital Era  (March 29, 2017)

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