The Global Connectivity Challenge

Whether we're talking about reinvigorating the human capital of the developed world or enabling an economic leap forward among the developing nations, no technology is as critically important as "pervasive connectivity." In that new world, everything will talk to everything else on a real-time basis. How fast will it happen? What are some of the primary implications? We'll provide the answers.

As of year-end 2009, the world's 1.8 billion Internet users represented roughly 26 percent of the world's populatio.....