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Central importance for this book is the state of research in relation to global access to ICT, in particular for fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet and mobile Internet. Since beginning the discussion on access to ICT in the 1990s, the term digital divide characterizes the research environment. Recently, the term digital inequality is also used. Research on the subjects of Internet governance and its specific design become important as humanity develops towards becoming a global superorganism, a hybrid intelligent human-technology system. It is also about the research of how it is possible for a networked world society to establish a type of global culture.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
(Alan M. Turing, 1912–1954)
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Note: In this context it is expressed that the education level and the diffusion of technology in developed and OECD countries is generally high.
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This fact could be drastically changed, e.g. by capabilities of quantum computers, which are different from binary digital electronic computers based on transistors by using quantum-mechanical phenomena.
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Ünver, H. (2018). State of Affairs. In: Global Networking, Communication and Culture: Conflict or Convergence?. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76448-1_3
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