Another Billion People Are Coming to the Internet
On this episode of The Future with Hannah Fry, we explore a technological revolution in the developing world and its global ramifications.
Kenya Power and Lighting Company employees working on cables in Nairobi.
Photographer: Simon Maina/AFP
Some three billion people in the developing world still can’t access the internet. In five years, at least a billion of them will arrive online for the first time, thanks in large part to new technologies being developed in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
How will these new users embrace the internet to transform their lives, and what will it mean for the rest of the world? On this episode of The Future with Hannah Fry, Fry explores both how this new revolution is unfolding and who stands to gain from it. Across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, there are billions of people who companies like Google and Amazon see as a vast untapped market. But first they have to reach them.