Countries all over the world suffer from a lack of internet access. One tool makes internet access ridiculously easy: smart phones. The technology gets faster and cheaper every year. A Digital Revolution is taking place in affluent regions of Earth. Connectivity to the internet is bringing about new ideas, new paradigms, and new conveniences. Despite this, more than two thirds of the world remains unable to access this tool of epic proportions. They remain blind and deaf to the Digital Revolution. So therein lies my question: why isn't every man, woman, and child on the planet connected to the internet yet? Where are the brave investments and noble donations?
The internet is the ultimate tool of progress and total planetary interconnection. It is the single most important mechanism for businesses, causes, journalists, film school rejects, bored children, celebrities (read: unimportant rich folk), photoshop junkies, social cripples, and amateur pornographers everywhere. Yet monied interests continue to tighten their grips on the flow of information and rather than promote broad access to many, they want to raise prices into tiers which would preclude even more people from accessing what is arguably the most important invention in history.
The internet will eventually become so ubiquitous and so vital that it could very well be considered a human right to have access. Why not just begin the investment now? Let's research some ideas for getting internet access to all the people of the world and really unleash the floodgates of digital progress. Blog THAT.
