I found the following in Jehu Hanciles, Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the Transformation of the West (Orbis, 2008), to be an interesting qualification regarding globalization and worldwide connectivity.
“Undoubtedly, Internet users worldwide remain a privileged elite-in 2006 global usage was still under 16 percent. But Internet usage is lowest in Africa, where only 2.6 percent of the population are users-compared to 10 percent for Asia, 10 percent for the Middle East, and 67 percent for the United States. The disparity is even more obvious when it is considered that, though it accounts for 14 percent of the world’s population, the African continent is home to only 2.3 percent of Internet users worldwide.” (27)
The worldwide web is not so worldwide and certainly will not replace, in the near future, other means of human communication and interaction. I guess pulling a chair up and talking face-to-face with another person is here to stay!
thank God for that!