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Google searches for the category of "Computers & Electronics" are down 60 percent since 2004.
You may know Google Trends. It takes all the searches that all the humans (and other users of Google) make, pulls them apart, and deduces what topics people are searching for. It's perhaps the closest we can get to peering into the collective consciousness—and sometimes fascinating patterns emerge.
Take this one. Our society is besotted with technology, no? Well... Maybe not. This chart shows the Google Trend for all topics counted under "Computers & Electronics," which includes mobile phones and the like. The fact is that interest in these topics—at least as measured by Google—has fallen 60 percent since January of 2004.
The trend is slightly less dour for the "Internet & Telecom" and "Online Communities."
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ernet-is-losing-interest-in-computers/380305/
You may know Google Trends. It takes all the searches that all the humans (and other users of Google) make, pulls them apart, and deduces what topics people are searching for. It's perhaps the closest we can get to peering into the collective consciousness—and sometimes fascinating patterns emerge.
Take this one. Our society is besotted with technology, no? Well... Maybe not. This chart shows the Google Trend for all topics counted under "Computers & Electronics," which includes mobile phones and the like. The fact is that interest in these topics—at least as measured by Google—has fallen 60 percent since January of 2004.
The trend is slightly less dour for the "Internet & Telecom" and "Online Communities."
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ernet-is-losing-interest-in-computers/380305/