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David Sasaki

Will Online Video Make the World a Better Place?

The impact of the digital divide (or at least the bandwidth imbalance) is most pronounced when it comes to online video. In regions where lightening-fast internet connections are taken for granted, such as North America, Western Europe, and East Asia, it has become a common occurrence to observe teenagers watching YouTube videos on their iPhones or Korean businesswomen watching the nightly newscast on their mobile phones. Even those who have yet to transform their mobile phones into television sets, still regularly catch up on the latest and most popular YouTube videos. In fact, much of the world has already moved...

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Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

Hiroko Tabuchi
Journalism, Technology Starting to Add Up

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