While the internet is not a pure utility, it now functions as one across modern economic life. ICT has become embedded in households and institutions to the point that traditional economics applies more directly than when connectivity was still...
The first worker displaced by a robot may never receive a termination notice. A warehouse employee leaves or a cleaner retires, and the employer simply does not replace the position. Part of the workload moves to a machine. The...
For much of the past two years, the labor debate around artificial intelligence has centered on a visible event: the layoff. Companies have announced restructuring, executives have invoked AI, and forecasts have counted occupations that models could theoretically automate....
Latin America is no longer waiting to join the internet economy. By mid-2026, digital systems have become part of daily economic life: how households pay, how firms reach customers, how governments deliver services, and how banks assess risk.
Through mobile...
Asia’s internet economy, excluding China, has reached digital scale before becoming a single digital economy. By mid-2026, the region is no longer defined by whether people and firms are online. It is defined by what connectivity becomes once it...
Digitalization and Regional Structure Become One Growth Model
MENA and its associated regions enter mid-2026 with enough digital scale to shape economic outcomes, but not enough institutional depth to make those gains uniform. The region is not one internet economy...
At mid-year 2026, the United States and Canada have a mature internet economy that is moving from access expansion into productivity absorption. Both countries are among the world’s most internet-integrated economies. Internet penetration stood at 93.1% in the United...
Sub-Saharan Africa enters the second half of 2026 as a mobile-first internet economy whose strongest gains come from coordination rather than frontier compute. Digital systems already shape how money moves, how households reach services, how small firms find demand,...
At mid-year 2026, China’s internet economy is a mature national system shaped by high connectivity, state coordination, industrial policy, and platform scale. Its path differs from the United States and Europe because digital growth is tied less to individual...
Australia and New Zealand enter the second half of 2026 from a position of near-universal digital access. The region is no longer trying to bring the internet to the economy; it is trying to integrate the internet more deeply...
