{"id":2814,"date":"2016-06-21T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T06:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkshop.in\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T07:03:49","slug":"2016-internet-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2016\/06\/2016-internet-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Internet Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Meeker at KPCB recently released the 2016 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpcb.com\/internet-trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Trends Report<\/a>. At over 200 slides, it is indeed a treasure trove of information on the growing popularity of the Internet, and on the macro-economic trends that will shape our lives in the days to come.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few elements that struck me as noteworthy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Global Internet Users @ 3 Bn and 42% penetration<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>India Internet User\u00a0Growth accelerating at +40% year on year<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>India Internet Users @ 277 Mn passed US to become #2 global market after China<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Internet Retail on the rise bolstered by Always-On Connectivity + Hyper Targeted Marketing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Internet is now 10% of Retail Sales vs &lt;2% in 2000<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Video Usage, Sophistication and Relevance continues to grow rapidly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Voice as Computing Interface gains prominence with accuracy reaching &gt;90%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Global Smartphone Users slowing at +21% year on year (vs +31% last year)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Global GDP Growth slowing = Growth in 6 of last 8 years below 20-year average<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Interest Rates have fallen to historically low levels; Total Global Debt are high and rising faster than GDP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Demographic Trends = Slowing population growth, Slowing birth rates, Increasing life spans<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Economic Growth slowing + Margins for Error declining = Easy Growth is behind us<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/kpcb.com\/InternetTrends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire report<\/a>. Bookmark it and read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Meeker at KPCB recently released the 2016 edition of the Internet Trends Report. At over 200 slides, it is indeed a treasure trove of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,14],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-technology","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}