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Take a look at this article: Wired News: The World? Your Oyster? Why Not?
It's something that I have to wonder about - we have all this damn information floating around "a series of tubes" and yet it seems to have achieved far less than what it potentially could.

What could it do? We should be able to know more about everything than we do now. The knowledge of all people, including Americans, should have vastly increased as a result. From this new knowledge, people should be more able to solve long-term problems such as poverty.

Are we solving poverty? Perhaps. However, either the media's focus on it is increasing or Africa appears to growing poorer and poorer. Does more knowledge mean more solutions? Or just more **** to wade through? Who knows. But something more should be happening as a result of the internet - it does have that power.