China’s internet usage passes the United States

Well, it finally happened. Just a small notice on CNN [link removed by source] of a remarkable moment. China reported 253 million Internet users at the end of June–a 56% increase over last year at the same time–compared with 223 million in the U.S.

In other words, China has almost as many Internet users as the United States has citizens–and that still represents less than 20% of its total population.

So the United States can keep doing what it has been doing in schools, but it would have to get everyone in school proficient in information technology to match just the top 20% of China’s graduates–and that’s assuming that China isn’t doing anything different either.

That doesn’t seem like a very good bet….