I think looking at the specific numbers in that prediction misses the bigger point. The first world countries would never altruistically provide their advanced

I think looking at the specific numbers in that prediction misses the bigger point. The first world countries would never altruistically provide their advanced technology to the third world, and so most of the technological breakthroughs envisioned in the piece remain inaccessible to huge portions of the world's population. > For Lanier, the most heartbreaking scenario is festering in the third world, where, he believes, the current generation of children— lacking food, lacking skills, lacking aid, lacking education— will be lost in the next techno-revolution.