Explanation:
The Internet already connects over three billion people, and by some estimates contributes as much as US$4.2 trillion to the global economy. It has changed how humans connect, learn, socialize and express themselves. It has become such an important feature of our lives that for some of us it may be easy to take the revolutionary power of the Internet for granted. But more than half the world remains offline, and without its participation in the digital world, the Internet’s power will never be fully realized.
In its new report, GCIG outlines three distinct possibilities for the future of the Internet. In a worst-case scenario, the Internet could become broken and dangerous. In this world, cyberattacks are common, data breaches are the norm, government surveillance is ubiquitous, and mistrust becomes a permanent feature of the Internet, pushing people to stop using it altogether.