The Digital Revolution is the shift from mechanical and analogue electronic technology to digital electronics which began anywhere from the late 1950s to the late 1970s with the adoption and proliferation of digital computers and digital record keeping that continues to the present day.
Implicitly, the term also refers to the sweeping changes brought about by digital computing and communication technology during (and after) the latter half of the 20th century. 
In the late 1980s, less than 1% of the world's technologically stored information was in digital format, while it was 94% in 2007, with more than 99% by 2014.The year 2005 is estimated to be the year when human kind was able to store more information in digital, than in analog format (the "beginning of the digital age".

It is estimated that the world's capacity to store information has increased from 2.6 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 1986, to some 5,000 exabytes in 2014 (5 zettabytes).

1990

Cell phone subscribers: 12.5 million (0.25% of world population in 1990)

Internet users: 2.8 million (0.05% of world population in 1990)

2000

Cell phone subscribers: 1.5 billion (19% of world population in 2002)

Internet users: 631 million (11% of world population in 2002)

2010

Cell phone subscribers: 4 billion (68% of world population in 2010)

Internet users: 1.8 billion (26.6% of world population in 2010)

2020

Cell phone subscribers: 4.78 billion (62% of world population
Positive aspects include greater interconnectedness, easier communication, and the exposure of information that in the past could have more easily been suppressed by totalitarian regimes. Michio Kaku wrote in his books Physics of the Future that the failure of the Soviet coup of 1991 was due largely to the existence of technology such as the fax machine and computers that exposed classified information.

The Revolutions of 2011 were enabled by social networking and smartphone technology; however these revolutions in hindsight largely failed to reach their goals as hardcore Islamist governments and in Syria a civil war have formed in the absence of the dictatorships that were toppled.

The economic impact of the digital revolution has been wide-ranging. Without the World Wide Web (WWW), for example, globalization and outsourcing would not be nearly as feasible as they are today. The digital revolution radically changed the way individuals and companies interact. Small regional companies were suddenly given access to much larger markets. Concepts such as on-demand software services and manufacturing and rapidly dropping technology costs made possible innovations in all aspects of industry and everyday life.

After initial concerns of an IT productivity paradox, evidence is mounting that digital technologies have significantly increased the productivity and performance of businesses.

Intercontinental Communications Company was established and founded in June of 1989 by Hooman Mobasser. For the next 15 years, ICC became one of the top 10 companies in the country owning and operating Public Payphones.Eventually, with the advent of the emerging wireless industry, Hooman moved his expertise to the Wireless, and Telecom industries for the next 17 years, and still continuing and learning about this evolving community.