Maybe for the better? The internet hasn’t been the positive life force many in the global south have needed. WhatsApp rumors, TikTok, crypto scams… there’s nobody warning them about all these things.
I have only seen "revolutionized" used in the context of commerce and industry. Whether the procession of such is negative or positive is subjective to one's own taste.
I think what you just stated is a negative. The net benefit is material, at the cost of everything incorporeal.
I believe the GP and I are in agreement here.
As someone who's spent a lot of time in the global south and met a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on the internet, I'm curious what evidence you have to back up your claim.
The new stuff (social media in particular, and the instantaneous, always-connected nature of things in general, and the privacy-invading tendencies of online providers) is what we haven't figured out yet, and where most of the negative effect is coming from.
Are you talking about the global south?
So I'd say the onus is on you to provide comprehensive data to support your sweeping claim that the number of losers has been apparently negligible in the countries (including all factors, not just economic). And that's data, not your pile of subjective observations from the biased selection of people you met, here and there.
Yet the commenter above was treating like a bold proposition that needs mounts of evidence to support.
One does not have to be dragged into the "OUTRAGE OF THE DAY!" mud that is Twitter or Facebook.