The Internet at 40 – is it a human right?

On March 10, 1876, employing the world’s only telephone and uttering this uninspiring summons - “Mr Watson, come here, I need you” - Alexander Graham Bell ushered in a new era of communication and unwittingly invented electronic social networking.

Six years and 10 months earlier, to the day, at Promontory Point in Utah, a gold-spike was driven into the rail connecting the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, creating the world’s first transcontinental transport system...