Digital trends forecast 2012
Dominic HarrisonFuture Foundation
INTRODUCTION
By the beginning of the decade beginning with 2010, the truly global extent of the digital revolution was plain to see: access to mobile networks was available to 90% of the world’s population, including 80% of those living in rural areas; the number of SMS messages sent each year had tripled from levels seen in 2007 to reach some 6.1 trillion; those using the internet passed the 2 billion mark; mobile internet subscriptions had grown more than tenfold globally between 2005-20101)
As in-home and mobile internet connections proliferate and as the...