[ExI] 23andSingularity

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 09:09:06AM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> According to the CIA World Factbook, there were only 2.1 billion Internet
> users in 2010.

Smartphones (but not computers) are widespread in Africa and
Asia. I would expect that eventually/rather soon some 4-5 GPeople
will be "online" (by way of a mobile device with global
TCP/IP connectivity).
 
> The rest of the world lives, breathes, eats, labors...but you're right,
> even cumulatively their effect on the world is far less than those online.
> A large part of this is that those online also happen to be those with
> resources, those who are better educated, and so on, and of course those
> factors have been correlated with world impact for ages.
> 
> So, that does account for the majority of humanity.  But even among the 2.1
> billion who are online, how many of them choose not to post things you
> could track them down by?