Web set to truly become worldwide

Most of us take the Internet for granted. But think about what Internet access would mean to 5 billion people who don't currently have it. That's the idea behind a new campaign, internet.org, led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. "We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - even a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet," Zuckerberg said in an exclusive broadcast interview with CNN's "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo. "They're going to use it to decide what kind of government they want, get access to healthcare for the first time ever, and connect with family hundreds of miles away that they haven't seen in decades." This would be a huge achievement in itself, making the World Wide Web truly a World Wide Web. More than 4.5 billion of the 7 billion people on Earth don't have Internet access, according to the World Bank. The biggest gaps are in Eritrea (just 0.8% have access), East Timor (0.9%), and Myanmar (1.1%). There are gaps even in places you wouldn't expect. Even in the United States, 19% of people don't have Internet access. That is clearly 19% too many. This blog would get tons more hits if all seven billion people on Earth were connected.