As we have discussed throughout this entire course, there is an endless amount of information you can access of the World Wide Web!!! Within the global economy, the web has made it possible for people all over the entire planet to be connected. It is crazy to think that ten years ago you would have to make a long distance phone call to talk to someone a few counties over from you. Now, you can see and talk to people on the other side of the globe because of the internet and video products such as Skype!
The Internet currently has around 2 Billion users! These users are mostly in what we refer to as the "Global North", meaning they are industrialized countries where internet is expected to be accessible in every day life. Countries who are not as dependent on the Web and do not have every day access are known as the "Global South", and these include Africa, Latin America, and many others!
I believe within the next ten years, however, that many of these countries will become more globalized and be part of the information pool! I think in the future we will be run-over with information overload, because there will be so much information that can be transmitted by the click of a mouse or an enter key!
To see a distribution of how many people use the internet around the world, see the following link:
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