The Internet & the future of news
By any measure, the growth of the Internet over the last decade has been astounding. It took the telephone seventy- five years to reach fifty million users; it took television thirteen years. It took the Web just five. In a few short decades, the Internet has gone from an obscure technologica...
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MIT Press
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58812 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1223-2015 |
| Summary: | By any measure, the growth of the
Internet over the last decade has been
astounding. It took the telephone seventy-
five years to reach fifty million users;
it took television thirteen years. It took
the Web just five. In a few short decades,
the Internet has gone from an
obscure technological novelty to something
as basic and essential to our lives
as electricity. It now connects nearly a
quarter of the total world population,
having succeeded in reaching the farthest
stretches of the globe where simpler
necessities, such as clean running
water, have not. By 2013, there will be
2.2 billion Internet users worldwide,
and the technological trends we are seeing
today–rapid-fire growth in broadband,
wireless, and video on the Internet–
foreshadow an accelerated pace of
innovation and breadth of impact that
will be felt for generations to come. |
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