> Well, this certainly isn't true. It depends on how those estimates of the world's Internet population are calculated -- e.g., from census and other household

> Well, this certainly isn't true. It depends on how those estimates of the world's Internet population are calculated -- e.g., from census and other household data. Is an African village of 47 with a dial-up connection counted as part of the world's Internet population? I don't know. Do you? > And in any case, the people making these predictions are factoring in things like this, they didn't just slap down a linear regression line and call it a day. One would hope so, yet many are acting... surprised. As a headline put it, "Facebook’s forecast for the future looks suddenly bleak."[a] [a] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/26/17615330/facebook-earnings-forecast-user-growth-revenue https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/26/17615330/facebook-earning...