主题投资：150个令人难以置信的事实展示变革中的世界

Did you know? Thematic Investing 15 April 2025 150 incredible facts showcasing the Transforming WorldWe’re always talking about how the world is transforming at breakneck speed in EquityGlobal unprecedented ways. But the best way to illustrate this – what really opens people’sminds to how radically the world has already changed and the possibilities from here – isour collection of startling “did you know” facts and infographics. These show how theinconceivable is often already happening. In this report, we collate 150 or so of our bestfacts across areas like science, technology, nature, history and business. Free your mind; disruption all around - For better or worse These facts reveal how huge leaps forward in some areas are often accompanied byregression in others. We’ve created an artificial sun but also an amount of plastic thatweighs more than all the animals on earth combined. A quantum chip can perform acalculation in under 5 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion (1025)years, but half of us is expected to be short-sighted. For more, read on… Thematic InvestingMerrill Lynch (Israel) Haim Israel>>Equity StrategistMerrill Lynch (Israel)+972 3 607 2007haim.israel@bofa.com 10 for starters: Did you know that… Felix TranEquity StrategistBofAS+1 646 556 0731felix.tran@bofa.com 1.Right now, 31 satellites are in orbit tracking your exact location? 2.There is a defined number so big, there is not enough space in the universe to writeit down?3.At current average global mobile network speeds, it would take more than 300million years to download the entire internet?4.The first AI humanoid robot has received its passport and citizenship?5.The total air-miles humanity has travelled since 2006 is equal to 10 light years?6.108 billion people have lived on our planet since the dawn of civilization?7.We need to grow more food in the next 40 years to feed the global population thanwe produced in the past 8,000?8.We have produced enough plastic to cover the earth’s entire surface?9.This year there will be more silicon transistors on the planet than all the cells ofhumans, combined?10.The modern smartphone is 100,000x more powerful than all of NASA’s computingpower that landed a man on the moon? Lauren-Nicole Kung>>Equity StrategistMLI (UK)+44 20 7996 1045lauren-nicole.kung@bofa.com Martyn Briggs>>Equity StrategistMLI (UK)+44 20 7996 7442martyn.briggs@bofa.com Timestamp: 14 April 2025 11:20PM EDT Contents The Transforming World!3Companies make the world go round5Big numbers are…BIG!7We build the future!9“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”11“Space…the final frontier”12People are people!14We are what we eat16Mother Nature calling17Science class18Two steps forward, one step back20 The Transforming World! •1 billion hours ago humanity emerged, 1 billion seconds ago IBM released thefirst PC…and 1 billion Google searches were made in the past 4 hours1•By the time you finish reading this sentence, c.241mn emails, 41.6mnWhatsApp messages and c.7,000 ChatGPT prompts will have been sent whilethere will have been 6.3mn searches on Google2•As you are reading this, 31 satellites in orbit are tracking your exact location3•Since 2006, airline passengers have travelled an accumulated c.95 trillion km.In other words, together humanity has travelled c.10 light years…more thanthe distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri…and back!4•More data was created in the past three years than in the entire previoushistory of the human race…5•….and in 2025, the world will create 181 zettabyte of data, equal to approx.45 trillion DVDs6•Globally, there are 14 trillion photos in existence, growing by 5 billion a day,or 61,400 per second, of which smartphones account for 94%7•Sophia was the world’s first AI humanoid robot to get a passport andcitizenship8•The modern smartphone is 100,000x more powerful than all of NASA’scomputing power for the Apollo moon landing in 1969…9•…and there is more processing power in a USB-C charger than the Apollo 11guidance computer10•If we were to stretch the global electric grid, it would stretch full circle fromthe moon to Earth, then from Earth to Venus, from Venus back to Earth andthen back to the moon…11•Gamers have collectively spent longer playing“Call of Duty”(25 billion hours)than humanity has existed12•In the total time people have spent watchingGangnam Styleon YouTube, wecould have built 20 Empire State buildings or 6.5 Burj Khalifas13•The 5 billion music video streams of the 2017 hit songDespacitoconsumedas much electricity as Chad + Guinea-Bissau + Somalia + Sierra Leone + theCentral African Republic combined in a year14 Sources:1Hal R. Varian;2Domo, EarthWeb, Duston Stout, DemandSage, Business of Apps, DoorDash, SocialPilot,Statista, PR Newswire, NETSCOUT;3Federal Aviation Administration;4BofA Global Research, Our World in Data,Statista, ICAO;5BofA Global Research, Statista, SINTEF;6Rivery.io;7Photutorial statistics;8News articles e.g.Forbes;9Graham Kendall–