"The INFOSPHERE we are heading towards invokes the inherent risk of being the sphere of the developed, the few. Unless we can bridge the technological gap between the 20% and the 80% of the global population, we will be heading towards an ugly world with ugly consequences."
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November 16, 1999, Amman, Jordan, Speech entitled : Technology in the Next Millennium.
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