In the US, most homework assignments require connectivity, but there are five million families with school-aged children that have no internet access. Sprint’s '1million' project aims to close the so-called ‘homework gap’ – positioning the brand as an investor in America’s future.

If the internet were a country, it would be the fifth largest economy all on its own, but just 43% of people have access to it. Since 2013, Facebook has been working alongside names including Samsung and Qualcomm to fix this. But could making the internet accessible to all really be so simple?

The UN has called internet access a human right, but over 23 million rural US citizens don’t have access to internet speeds sufficient for even basic tasks such as booking a doctor’s appointment online. Microsoft plans to change this by converting old TV channels into broadband services.

With the news of Samsung spying through televisions, Ford bugging cars and yesterday’s internet wunderkinds – Google, Facebook, Amazon – feeling like today’s big corporates, internet critic Andrew Keen gives his views on potential digital dystopias in his book The Internet Is Not The Answer.