Connecting developed nations was relatively easy,but getting the rest of the world online will be far more difficultExclusive: dramatic slowdown in global growth of internet accessLife at the bottom of the global league of internet accessThere are two kinds of people in the world: those with internet access and those without. But the decades-long drive to convert the latter into the former is beginning to falter, the Guardian reveals nowadays, and prompting hard questions approximately whether connecting the world is even possible.
The reality,however, is far less black and white than the statistics make it sound. People access the internet in different ways, or they exercise it for different things – and some of them even access different internets entirely. As William Gibson said,25 years ago, the future is already here it’s just not very evenly distributed. Related: Life at the bottom of the global league of internet access Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com