Eric Schmidt

Everyone on Earth will be connected to the internet by the end of the 2010s (2019).

“By the end of the decade, everyone on Earth will be connected.”

Said on

13 April 2013 · Google+ post promoting his book The New Digital Age

Source

Google boss: Entire world will be online by 2020 · PC Tech Magazine

Should come true

2010s

How sure they sounded

will (stated as fact)

Categories

Technology

Importance

4 of 5 · Universal internet access would reshape the global economy, education and politics.

Outcome

Inaccurate

ITU estimated 4.1 billion people (53.6% of the world) online at end of 2019, with about 3.6 billion still offline, far from everyone on Earth.

Evidence:

• https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/2019-PR19.aspx
• https://www.developmentaid.org/news-stream/post/53580/new-itu-data-reveal-growing-internet-uptake-but-a-widening-digital-gender-divide