Are technology and globalization destined to drive up inequality?: Understanding inequality and what drives it
Kemal Dervis and Laurence Chandy - October 5, 2016
Over the past several years, concerns that technology and globalization lead to ever greater inequality have reached fever pitch in the U.S. and beyond. To understand what’s behind this anxiety, three distinctions are useful
The digital language divide: How does the language you speak shape your experience of the internet?
Holly Young - May 28, 2015
Try to visualise the internet. For me, it is something hazy, suspended somewhere above our heads as we gaze at our screens. It’s composed of tiny, moving fragments of information and simultaneous conversations, and it has no defined edges: it is limitless.
This vision of the internet as something infinite, open to be freely explored, is perhaps both naive and arrogant but, as an English speaker, it is not a sense of entitlement that is completely without reason. The first language used on the internet was almost certainly English. By the mid 1990s it was estimated that English made up 80% of the content.