HOW the world uses the NET

摘要

Welcome to the Global Village. Population: 150,887,000. Today, one out of 40 people has been online. By year end 2005, approximately 720 million users will log on. Currently, the U.S. accounts for the lion's share of usage, and rich, homogenous Scandinavian nations boast the greatest number of users per capita. But exactly how is the rest of the world doing? "There's not a country on Earth that does not have an Internet plan," says Jeffrey Cole, director of the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, which Is conducting a study of the Net's global impact. "It's no mystery that, in the U.S., the stock market's growth is being driven by the Net," Cole continues. "World leaderships are convinced that the 21st century economy is going to be tied to the Web."