About the Institute for the Future

About Future Now


  • IFTF's Future Now draws on research and forecasting at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, CA think tank specializing in the future of technology, health, and organizational change. It began in September 2003.

Who is Future Now?

  • IFTF's Future Now is a group weblog, founded by Institute research director Alex Soojung-Kim Pang in September 2003. Its contributors include IFTF researchers interested in emerging technologies, the future of Asia, and the social and economic impacts on new technologies; IFTF corporate affiliates; academic partners; and members of the Innovation Lab, a Danish futures group with offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen. A complete list of contributors is available here.

The Future of Cities - A conversation about global urbanization in the 21st century

Virtual China

« The Best $95 I've Ever Spent: The New York Academy of Sciences | Main | links for 2007-04-11 »

April 10, 2007

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c92eb53ef00d834345df953ef

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Seoul Surpasses 100% Broadband Penetration:

» Seoul Surpasses 100% Broadband Penetration from Seoul Digital City
Link: IFTF's Future Now: Seoul Surpasses 100% Broadband Penetration. some recent stats (Feb. 2007) on Broadband Penetration in Korea. Overall, Korea has 89% penetration. In Seoul, it's over 100%! As Anthony points out, clearly, this is due to multiple ... [Read More]

Comments

Robin

Any data on wireless access in Seoul? It seems like 100% broadband could pretty easily translate into close-to-100% wifi coverage, even if just a fraction of folks left their connections open... but maybe with broadband so deep there's actually less of a need for wifi.

I ask because, on the 'look at South Korea to see the future' note, I'm curious about what becomes possible when wifi is (close to) ubiquitous.

The comments to this entry are closed.

Search Future Now

Blog powered by TypePad

IFTF Flickr

  • www.flickr.com
    This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Work. Make your own badge here.

    See all IFTF-tagged pictures on Flickr

September 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30