FINDING THE HIDDEN DIMENSION OF GLOBAL INTERNET USAGE THROUGH FRACTAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Statistics revealed that the number of internet users in the world is increasing due to technological advancements. Technological advancement, on the other hand, is a function of the national economy. Highly developed nations, therefore, are expected to have more internet users than less developed economies. Fractal analysis is a contemporary method of applying nontraditional mathematics to patterns that defy understanding with traditional Euclidean concepts. This study employed a descriptive method of research and made use of secondary data from 198 countries (internet users) of 2014. Fractal analysis was used to determine the fractal characteristic of the given data. The histogram of the logarithm of the Internet Users across the world appears to be normally distributed. The phenomenon of observed internet users has already departed from the natural state. Analysis of the fractal observations revealed a tendency to diffuse towards uniformity in the use of internet all over the world so that cyber-communication will become the norm or standard through which countries will eventually exchange information.