2 di usion 3 chris forman a avi goldfarb b shane greenstein c 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 internet network we do find some evidence supporting global village theory for along this dimension 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 general purpose technology gpt pre 28 dicts that the same technological opportunity does 29 30 31underlies range of net benefits experienced 32across us from 33however lack systematic data and formal 34ory has made it cult to characterize variance in 35internet experience among commercial users with corresponding author e mail address cforman andrew cmu edu electronic commerce research applicatio elerap 144 no pages dtd 0 1 october 2004 disk used article press unc 1567 4223 see front matter c211 published by elsevier bv orrect also pattern adoption frontier technologies supports urban density not last show business use is significantly shaped prior geographic distribution industry