Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt said this weekend that the entire world would be online by 2020. On Saturday, Schmidt wrote this on his Google+ account:

For every person online, there are two who are not. By the end of the decade, everyone on Earth will be connected.

Saturday’s thought was followed by this on Sunday:

Think about how great the internet is with 2B users. Now think about how amazing it will be when 5B come online in a decade. #NewDigitalAge.

But not all of Schmidt’s followers agreed with his thought process. A Google+ user who goes by the name of Mary M wrote:

You really believe that? What about the millions in Africa who can’t even get enough food to eat or the natives in South America who have no idea what technology is? Maybe you should rephrase to those in civilized areas or something like that…

There has been a 3% increase in the global population of internet users from last year according to the International Telecommuniactions Union. Is Schmidt’s vision perhaps a little too optimistic?

Geeks Without Frontiers, a non-profit group, is a project supported by Google, where computers and other related technology is donated to poor populations around the world. The group now aims to bring wireless internet to to regions with no web access.

Google says that more people in Africa have access to a mobile phone than they do to electricity, stating that 25% of their searches during the week are from a mobile phone, and rising to 65% on the weekends in South Africa.

[Source: CNN News]