The Virtual Revolution refers to the fact that 20-25% of the word’s population is using the web by now, while other 80% are yet either not connected to broadband connections or are just not using it, as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, states. In Afrika for example, people are now getting connected to broadband internet in a wide variety of areas. This means that the digital revolution that has shaped our world as we know it now, will happen in these areas too.
The BBC has started a series called “The Virtual Revolution – How 20 years of the web has reshaped our lives“. The following video represents a great intro to this series:
- Welcome to the Virtual Revolution (guardian.co.uk)
- Tech Weekly: Sir Tim Berners Lee and the BBC’s Virtual Revolution (guardian.co.uk)
- Sneak Peek of New BBC Documentary ‘The Virtual Revolution’ [Documentaries] (gizmodo.com)
- Tim Berners-Lee Unveils UK Government Data Project (yro.slashdot.org)
- Web wonders (news.bbc.co.uk)
- Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes (tech.slashdot.org)