Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of widening digital divide
by DSingularity on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:12AM
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How does the rate of spread of the Internet compare to that of the printing press? I think the ubiquity of the internet is what makes people comfortable to judge it as if it is mature.
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Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of widening digital divide
by keiferski on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:16AM
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By 1500, printing presses in operation throughout Western Europe had already produced more than twenty million volumes.
It took roughly 30 or 40 years for the press to be widely distributed around Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_...
> I think the ubiquity of the internet is what makes people comfortable to judge it as if it is mature.
Technology isn't going to stay exactly the same indefinitely. It just seems like a complete lack of imagination about the future to me.