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Technology: Internet Traffic Forecast to Quadruple By 2015

Contributed by Rick DeVan on June 3, 2011 at 4:03 pm ET

Resource: Internet traffic to quadruple by 2015: Cisco via The Sydney Morning Herald.

Global online traffic will quadruple by 2015 as the number of gadgets linked to the internet climbs to 15 billion, according to a forecast by networking colossus Cisco.

Resource: Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010-2015.

Exciting and frightening at the same time.

Filed under Global Aware, Life, Work, and Society, Technology

Tags used: Cisco, Internet, Technology —

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Readings: The Asymmetrical Online War

Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 3, 2011 at 9:02 am ET

Resource: The Asymmetrical Online War via NYTimes.com.

…The Internet has transformed many things in the world, but one of its most remarkable effects has been to change the balance of power, not between states, but between entire nations and their citizens.

Thriv’Ability: Voice-Enabled Internet in Africa

Contributed by Rick DeVan on January 22, 2011 at 1:26 pm ET

Resource: Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Seeks Voice-Enabled Internet in Africa

“VOICES will provide the tools, techniques, and training to make it easier to access the Web through voice. In doing so, we will explore the potential for billions of new users to access information and services from the Web,” Web Foundation CEO, Steve Bratt, tells Fast Company.

Resource: World Wide Web Foundation

The Web is young. We do not fully comprehend how this complex and expanding Web of “humanity connected by technology” really works. But what we do know, is that the Web works best when the underlying technologies are globally agreed, free and open.

Doing good.

Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Technology, Thrivability

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How Big Is the Internet?

Contributed by Rick DeVan on January 12, 2011 at 9:31 am ET

It’s so big that I can’t fit the graphic on this page.

Graphic via TNW — Next Web.

Resource via Canadian Marketing Association on Facebook.

Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Media, News and Announcements, Statistics, Technology

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Statistics: Internet Gains On TV As News Source

Contributed by Rick DeVan on January 5, 2011 at 10:19 am ET

Resource: Internet Gains on Television as Public’s Main News Source via Pew Research.

The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007.

Interesting that they don’t ask where on the Internet people get their news.

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