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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| description | 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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/588122022-09-29T12:22:53Z The Internet & the future of news Leighton, Frank Thomson Sagan, Paul Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics Leighton, Frank Thomson Leighton, Frank Thomson 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. 2010-10-01T13:56:50Z 2010-10-01T13:56:50Z 2010-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0011-5266 1548-6192 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58812 Sagan, Paul, and Tom Leighton. “The Internet & the future of news.” Daedalus 139.2 (2010): 119-125. © 2010 by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1223-2015 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed.2010.139.2.119 Daedalus Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press MIT Press |
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