The Kelburn participants gave shorthand names to the four scenarios they developed. The global community is exclusive and fragmented. Most developing countries respond only partially and reactively to the acquisition and use of ICTs. The immense cash profits and monopoly rents available to electronic gatekeepers push these companies inexorably toward merger and concentration.
Content companies do the same in entertainment and, increasingly, in education.
Their ambitions are encouraged by the global business community and by governments. Technology certainly doesn't follow basic needs. There are no real attempts to direct the technologies for public benefit, either in OECD countries or anywhere else. Corporations are free to exploit cheap labour anywhere in the world, and cities face job losses when employers find cheaper labour in another country. Many people oscillate between overwork when work is available and no work when it isn't.