By skyforbes 
The Fastest Tech Adoption in Human History
By July 2025, ChatGPT had reached a milestone that no technology in history had achieved so quickly: 700 million weekly active users, representing roughly 10% of the world’s adult population. To put this in perspective, it took television 13 years to reach 50 million users, the internet 4 years, and Facebook 3.5 years. ChatGPT? Just months.
From its launch as a “research preview” on November 30, 2022, to this extraordinary scale in less than three years, ChatGPT has transformed from an experimental chatbot into a global phenomenon that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. By July 2025, users were collectively sending 18 billion messages per week — that’s approximately 29,000 messages every single second.
But here’s the fascinating question that has puzzled economists, technologists, and policymakers alike: What are all these people actually doing with AI?
A groundbreaking new research paper from OpenAI, Duke University, and Harvard University has pulled back the curtain on this mystery, analyzing patterns from billions of conversations to reveal surprising truths about how humanity has embraced generative AI. The findings challenge many assumptions about artificial intelligence, workplace…