We are truly living in the digital age, powered by the Internet, networking, supercomputers, mega data centres, digital devices, digital services, and now Artificial Intelligence. Each of these is a combined result of hundreds of inventions and innovations since the development of early computers in the middle of the last century. The technologies that power the digital age have been developed by scientists, engineers and innovators in research institutions and universities, and commercialised by corporations in Silicon Valley and other technology hubs.

The Internet, for instance, is a result of a series of developments such as computer time-sharing, ARPANET (network of Advanced Research Projects Agency), packet switching, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), World Wi

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