Sometimes it is helpful to remember just how far one has come.
Mobile communications was a concept, before it became a commercial service.
In 1985, when the CTIA first began keeping statistics, there were about 200,000 mobile phone customers in the whole United States.
Consider mobile adoption rates now.
Earlier, the big problem had been access to "telephone service" at all. In 1996, phone phone penetration was about 1.9 percent in Africa, for example.
Today, mobile adoption in Africa is at least 67 percent.
Consider the size of the Internet in 1969: four nodes. Today, two billion people, at minimum, use the Internet.
To twist a commonplace phrase, "progress happens."
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
The Internet in 1969
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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