A small world is still a distant dream

As the saying goes “It’s a small world”. I beg to differ with that. With the rapid technological developments we are in fact shortening the world in the sense that a person in one place can interact with another in a different part of the world. But the real question here is that “How many people actually make use of these technologies?” The internet penetration in the world is just 28.7% of the overall population and most of this penetration takes place in the developed countries which represent just a fraction of the world’s population. The places where there is more number of people (eg Africa, India, China, etc.) the penetration of Internet is quite low. Though it is growing at a good rate but the fact remains that it will take many decades to achieve a good level of penetration. By good level I mean penetration worthwhile of saying “a small world”. Moreover, the phrase “small world” also implies people can easily interact and cooperate and work with people from other places constructively. This is being made possible by virtual offices and web/video conferencing but these methods can never replicate the level of understanding and the level of completion conventional methods can achieve. These conventional methods mean meeting and interacting personally which is not easily possible as the world itself is a HUGE place. Moreover, there are still parts which are unexplored by humans in the world. Places where it isn’t easy to survive, reach and where there are species we don’t know about even after being in existence for so long. This fact itself adds to my personal belief that a small world is still a distant dream.