I think about the diffusion of the Internet to developing countries. Getting onto the Internet depends on having a computer and a telephone connection. Most people who have computers already have telephones. Diffusion of the Internet to people with both is a relatively easy, inexpensive process. In developing countries few people have either computers or telephones. I suspect that the process of diffusion of the Internet will become much slower when it has exhausted the installed computer and telephone capacity, and new linkages will require both a new computer and a new telephone. I have seen estimates that a billion people in the world still don't have electricity. I suspect that the diffusion of Internet technology to illiterate people who not only don't have computers and telephones, but who don't have electricity will be quite a different process still. John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant http://stconsultant.blogspot.com