Steve Jobs' original idea of doing away with a QWERTY keyboard to give us the touchscreen tablet helped create the biggest company on the New York Stock Exchange with a huge market capitalization, while advances in IT, intelligent automation and Al are now even doing away with car drivers and helping create self-driving cars. The roll-out of national broadband infrastructure has become a priority policy goal for many nations. According to ITU's most recent data, 151 countries had introduced a National Broadband Plan (NBP), with a further seven countries planning to develop one.