Over the past five decades it has led to the development of the Internet, lasers, global positioning satellites, magnetic resonance imaging, DNA sequencing, and hundreds of other technologies.

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While Facebook is the number one site U.S. mobile users spend time on line, mobile usage of the social network is even higher in most emerging markets, Facebook Vice President of corporate development Vaughan Smith said at the Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley in San Jose on Friday.

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These radical proposals threaten not only the Internet as we know it but also innovation and national and global economic development.

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