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Although this possibility is inherent in the new technologies, /, it is far from a
reality for most of the world's population. There are more telephones in Tokyo
than in the whole of *sub-Saharan Africa. Television is a mass medium only in
the most developed countries. Computers and the Internet are not accessible to
most of the world's poor. ,。 The information revolution has led to the combining
5 of the world's banking services, commodity markets, data systems and capital
flows but has widened the division between the information haves and the
information have-nots.