Who are the world’s information-poor?

The communications revolution-the Internet for short-is still so new that discussing it entails telling stories. The journalism is history in its first draft: this can be no more than a second draft. When the Internet reached wide public notice-in Britain as long ago as 1993-it was discussed as a communication medium. Much was made of its startling new features and its possible impacts on our cultures. Possibly the feature which gained most attention was its anonymity-or in the words of the notorious New Yorker cartoon, ‘On the Internet, noone knows you’re a dog’.