More than 4.5 billion people currently own a mobile phone, and within the next decade, that number will reach 90 percent of the global population. So when Clinton speaks of “a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas,” she is not describing some messianic attempt to impose American technological solutions on the rest of the world. She is talking about the world as it soon will be — and in many ways already is.

Digital Diplomacy - By Sam duPont | Foreign Policy

That is, of course, unless Google and Verizon have anything to say about it.

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August 10, 2010 at 11:33 pm