The gains in efficiency and convenience provided by the Internet benefit everybody.
The proposal addresses a debate that has raged since the early days of the Internet: Who benefits more from digital links and the traffic they generate — search engines, aggregators and other online hubs, or the sites that produce the content?
Mullin is determined to make sure that Internet technology benefits literally every Delta employee as well.
However, their strategic thinking needs to be disentangled from the traditional ICT-providing mindset, to ensure they reap long-lasting Internet technology benefits.
In addition, it's not really a gatekeeper if people are quickly moving onto the full internet which benefits everyone in the internet ecosystem.
Ultimately, providing another business with Internet access benefits everyone, placing a stamp of goodwill and knowledge on a community that is priceless.
China's access to Wikipedia, for instance, has been blocked and unblocked three times, he says, adding: "These countries want the Internet's benefits to society and to economic growth but without the political subversion".
Because of the Internet's benefits of interoperability, statistical sharing, and (usually) positive network externalities, providers of new applications and services will attempt to create new markets for their services through the Internet, even if the underlying technical architecture of the Internet is not intrinsically designed to support such services.
While Carr firmly believed that his skepticism about the Internet's benefits to cognition was warranted, he cautioned in both his essay and his book The Big Switch that long-term psychological and neurological studies were required to definitively ascertain how cognition develops under the influence of the Internet.
Rural residents are quick to realise how mobile phones, SMS and internet can benefit them.
