Vivek Pai

The latest issue of Technology Review, issued today, names HashCache one of this year’s top ten revolutionary emerging technologies.

"In most places, networking is more expensive–not only in relative terms but even in absolute terms–than it is in United States," Vivek Pai tells David Talbot of Technology Review. HashCache, a new method for storing Web content that could make Internet access more affordable and accessible worldwide, is currently being field-tested at the Kokrobitey Institute in Ghana and Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria.

You can hear about the technology straight from Pai in this video.