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‘The future of Internet is African’

Students from Kaaga primary school,Meru county,admire their tablets on May 5,2016,after the school was awarded 63 tablets and two computers by the jubilee government. PHOTO: PETER MUTHOMI

Depending on whom you ask, the future of the Internet is one of three things. It is either a dystopia ruled by corporate giants, a utopia where artificial intelligence has solved the majority of humanity’s challenges, or a mix of the two.

As it is today, computing and networking technologies are evolving at a pace that has left Internet users trapped in a near-infinite cycle of adoption.

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