Growing Accessibility to Information

I recently read an article from the ERIC database, comparing the development of the printing press and technology today. I am not sure the link will work if you are not logged into BYU's library system, but here it is. http://www.eric.ed.gov.erl.lib.byu.edu/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED474051 .

This article claimed that the printing press was evolutionary not revolutionary. It just added to what had been developed over years and assisted in the ageless effort to make information accessible to the general public. It mentions the humble beginnings of the printing press and how it took 300 years to make printed materials fully accessible to the general public. We can see the same thing (but on a shorter time scale) with the integration of automobiles, telephones, and television. They each took about a generation to be accessible to everyone. I think it is no surprise that the same theory can be applied to the humble beginnings of  the internet. In the past few years we can see surprising growth in the accessibility the general population has to the internet. I would be as bold to say that every American has access to the internet, whether it be through work, home, or school. Anyone can simply walk into a public library to have unlimited information at their fingertips.

Now we see an increase in use of social networks to consume, create, and connect the information we use. How much more can the accessibility to internet grow?