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While many of us are very familiar with the latest gadgets and software - there are vast regions in the world which do not have access to these techs. To give you an idea of the scope of development of this industry let’s compare the population of the world to the population of internet users.

The population of the world according to Wikipedia is 6.72 Billion.
The population of Internet users according to Internet World Stats is around 1.42 Bilion.

That means about 21% of the world is using the Internet - the rest 79% are still oblivious to this phenomenon. But that will soon change as technology becomes cheaper. A day will come when technology will be in the hands of even the uneducated masses. We have already seen this happen with mobile phones - people with a monthly salary of $70 are able to afford a mobile phone now and this has sparked a revolution in how informed people are - imagine what the Internet will do to this population when they have access to almost any information they can ever need.

One of the highlights of such a time will be localization of websites - it will become extremely important for us web masters to be able to provide our content in local languages. Fortunately there are already programs like the Google Language Tool available using which you can create a decent localized version of you pages.

The time is soon coming when this 79% population will be online - and the online boom is far from over - the Internet will eventually grow to be the backbone of our society.