Data Sprawl: How The Web’s Rapid Expansion Will Transform The Global South

Two new reports show that Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015–and that an explosion of users in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East will likely make the world’s web look quite different. In most of Western Europe, North America, and Asia, the Internet is old. The personal computer led the way, eventually bringing hypertext and multimedia into our offices and now, a huge range of digital appliances that regularly stream more data than they store locally

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Data Sprawl: How The Web’s Rapid Expansion Will Transform The Global South