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Liz Wolfe

5 Technologies That 5 Billion Will Use by 2050

Since 1996, the number of people using the internet has climbed from about 40 million people to about 5 billion—or 60 percent of the world's population. There's internet access in the city slums of India, the rice terraces of Vietnam, and the favelas of Brazil.

That's a massive shift in 27 years—or my entire lifetime.

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