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2014: the year the internet finally came of age http://t.co/25WhyLdNkH
December 29, 2014
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2014: the year the internet finally came of age
The best we can say about 2014 is that it was the year when we finally began to have a glimmer of what the internet might mean for society. Not the internet that we fantasised about in the early years, but the network as it has evolved from an exotic curiosity into the mundane underpinning of our lives - a general-purpose technology or GPT.