Ignorance and poverty are giving way to broadband highways and clouds of information, delivered to extremely affordable mobile devices.

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These vast clouds of free information contain facts that Dr Rosling dispenses like thunderbolts.

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But more of our information is migrating to the clouds, requiring that more be done to correct the fallout of such heavy data storage demands.

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