When smartphones will take over the planet

<p>Spend a lot of time on your smartphone? So does everybody else.</p><p><a href="http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1741352" target="_blank">Cisco System&#39;s latest five-year outlook</a>&nbsp;shows smartphones are slowly but surely taking over the planet.</p><p>Mobile data traffic is going to increase eight times over by 2020.</p><p>About 70 percent of the planet 5.5 billion users will connect through a mobile device.</p><p>Most of that growth will come in Africa and the Middle East.</p><p>Worldwide, the mobile phone will be more common for more people than electricity or running water.</p><p>Smartphones alone will account for 81 percent of mobile data traffic more than 75 percent of which will be video.</p><p><i>This video includes images from&nbsp;</i><a href="https://thenounproject.com/AcceleratorMT" target="_blank"><i>Michael Thompson / CC BY 3.0</i></a><i>,&nbsp;</i><a href="https://thenounproject.com/MartinJordan/" target="_blank"><i>Martin Jordan / CC BY 3.0</i></a><i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</i><a href="https://thenounproject.com/alejovaldivia/" target="_blank"><i>Alex Valdivia / CC BY 3.0</i></a><i>. Music by&nbsp;</i><a href="http://madsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mads-free-commercial-purposes-allowed" target="_blank"><i>MADS / CC BY 3.0</i></a><i>.</i></p>