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From the August 1995 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Trends in Scientific Communication

Lost Science in the Third World

by W. Wayt Gibbs, staff writer

This 640 x 359 pixel image depicts how the global Internet is transforming scientific communication. But the network has been slow to penetrate the Third World, leaving many researchers in poor nations isolated from informal contact with colleagues in more industrial regions.