Around 20-25% of the world's population, about 2 billion people, currently use the web. In the UK, 35 million people log on daily and £1 billion is spent weekly on internet activities. 18 million UK residents read blogs. The internet is described as a "great leveller" because it provides equal access, voice, and potential by challenging traditional assumptions about expertise and control of information. However, libertarian values of the internet can clash with human instincts to profit from and exert control over information.

1. Quiz on The Virtual Revolution

2. Which continent has just got broadband?

3. Africa

4. 3. How much of the population is using the web?

5. 20-25%

6. 4. How many of us is that?

7. 2 Billion

8. Dr AleksKrotoski refers to the web as bringing about a 'levelling of power, culture and ??????'

9. values

10. 6. How many log on every day in the UK?

11. 35 million

12. 7. How much money is spent a week on the internet in the UK?

13. £1 Billion

15. 8. How many of us read blogs?

16. 18 million

17. 9. Why is it called 'the great leveller'?

18. Because it gives us all ‘equal access, equal voice, equal potential’ It is challenging long held assumptions about ownership, values and expertise.

19. 10. How do the libertarian values of the internet clash with 'human instincts?

20. 10. How do the libertarian values of the internet clash with 'human instincts?

21. Because we want to profit from and control information.

22. Wikipedia

23. 65 million 14 million articles Perfect eg of internet: It empowers us It offers something for free It undercuts authority It enables ordinary people to shape knowldege together It fulfills the levelling dreams of the founding fathers of the internet.

24. But who controls these shared sites? Do they need to be controlled? Consider gatekeeping