The Internet & the future of news

By any measure, the growth of the Internet over the last decade has been astounding. It took the telephone seventy- five years to reach fifty million users; it took television thirteen years. It took the Web just five. In a few short decades, the Internet has gone from an obscure technological novel...

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Main Authors: Leighton, Frank Thomson (Contributor), Sagan, Paul (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MIT Press, 2010-10-01T13:56:50Z.
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