The Increasing Use of Internet

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Enablers:

  • The advance of computer and mobile technology
  • The more and more affordable price of computer
  • The advance of network technology: Wireless Network
  • Better education level, especially in the 3rd world countries
  • The incredible "overbuilding" of the infrastructure during the dot com bubble

Inhibitors:

  • Internet security issues: its vulnerabilities to cybercrime

Paradigms:

Emerging paradigm associated with the advance of internet:

  • e-government
  • e-commerce
  • e-business
  • e-learning (Distance learning)
  • Semantic web

Experts:

  • Marshal McLuhan
  • GVU's WWW survey
  • IDC
  • Nua Ltd.

Timing:

In a www survey conducted by GUV in 1995, internet connection speed at 14 kb/s had the highest percentage with 33.7%, 32.72%, 22.95% in general part of the world, U.S, and europe respectively. In other words, the most common connection speed is 14 Kb/sec (33.70%) followed by 28 Kb/sec (26.63%). In year 1998, the same survey resulted in 31.4% for connection speed at 56 Kb/sec. This fact however has shown how internet technology has grown rapidly within three years.

In terms of internet usage, internet user has grown from 16 million (0.39% of world population) in December 1995 to 580.78 million (9.75% of world population) in May 2002. Those data are based upon research from Nua Ltd. and IDC respectively. This means internet user had grown 35.3% in seven years from 1995 to 2002. Therefore, in year 2020 we might expect internet will overwhelmingly used by people and become a backbone of human's technology civilization.

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