Internet all around

As I sat in an auditorium listening to Vint Cerf, the "father" of the internet (who now works as an evangelist at Google) speak about the internet I found his note on the globalization of internet interesting. He spoke about how a few years ago over 50% of the internet is in English. As technology advances this statistic is shifting toward the Asian market, now being 56% in languages other than English. He pointed out the fact that this is because of the cell phone, many of which have internet capabilities.

The cell phone is a device that merges the virtual world with reality. It allows for virtual network to communicate in reality through instant messaging. Many messenger devices now enable users to input their mobile numbers to enable them to receive text messages from the virtual network. Similar to what Robert Rheingold (57) said in his book regarding the merge that has happened between the communication nodes.

One of the indicator of advancement in a country is by the amount of land telephone lines, hence many third world have more cell phone users than land phone users. Therefore, I think logically anyone with a cell phone can be connected despite being oceans apart. In the future I believe that the 6th degree of separation will be more true. As the internet integrate into our lives with just not our phones but also in our appliances, cars ect.