With an estimated 5 percent of the population connected, Cuba has some of the most limited Internet in the world. Here's how the good people of this small island nation are hacking their way into the 21st century.
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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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Traveling 15, 10, even just 5 years ago was harder and took more effort than it does today. Thanks to technological advances, specifically with the Internet and mobile devices, the way you travel has changed for the better.
KazzaDrask Media's insight:
As long as you have a generous data plan or can connect to free wi-fi, especially when outside your home country. 
Eve-Line Boulle's curator insight,
November 14, 2014 9:24 AM
" Technology is changing the way we travel, and luckily it’s changing for the better. How you might ask? We’re constantly looking for ways to improve how we live and how things work, and because of this ambition to always be improving technology is advancing every day. Through recent technological advances, particularly with the Internet and mobile devices, technology is refining our basic traveling methods and has most noticeably done so in 3 ways."
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Maine-based photographer Tanja Hollander has set out to meet up with and photograph all 626 of her Facebook friends in or near their homes. So far, she's shot 256 of them along the Eastern seaboard, New Orleans, Austin, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. With friends all over the world, Hollander's The Facebook Portrait Project will be taking on a more international flavor as it goes on.
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Traveling without easy access to wi-fi is problematic. Google has a new tool that allows users to be in a place without Internet access — whether on a sidewalk in New York City or a back road in Tuscany — and pull up a map that lets them get directions and use turn-by-turn voice navigation, as well as search for places (art galleries, restaurants, hotels, museums) and see details including hours, phone numbers and reviews.
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Despite 21st-century conveniences like GPS devices, Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau’s idyllic retreat in the woods of Concord, Mass., remains hard to find.
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CrashMy Pad is the latest service for travelers looking to rent a room or an apartment and "live like a local." The company's founders predict that "by the time (the Millennials) are in the 40s, [such travel acommodations] will just have become part of how society works. Over the long term, we are certain people will travel this way."
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