At some point in 2021, someone somewhere on Earth may become the planet's fifth billion internet user. We will get no text message when this happens; no banners will drop, no fireworks will go off, no golden ticket will be issued. Just humanity quietly passing another milestone on its way to connecting every last one of its members to an array of services most of us take for granted, including the ability to read this article.
But as anyone who has studied the digital divide can tell you, the last 2.8 billion (from the world's current estimated population of 7.8 billion) are going to be the hardest. We just abandoned one major tech firm's big idea about how to get them online, while the world's two richest men believe they will do the job with space-based schemes. Read more...
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