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To understand how infinitesimally narrow the digital divide can be, you need only enter the Emergency Housing Consortium's homeless shelter in San Jose, Calif., on a school night. Walk past the guard at the reception desk, down past the rows of slightly musty bunk beds, past the red-eyed...
Then there are times when the digital divide looks unfathomably deep. The phrase has become mired in the blurry realm of cliche, applied variously to women, the disabled, seniors, ethnic minorities, rural and inner-city populations. But the underlying threat is real. Technology has moved so fast that a new...
This is not merely an apocalyptic vision. Members of this digital class are already banking and trading stocks over high-speed Internet connections and whipping out wireless Palm Pilots while others wait in sluggish teller lines with pockets full of Post-it notes. Buy online, and you generally avoid sales...
What, then, does it take to get everyone on the right side of the digital divide? The answer is simple, if expensive--college. Degree-bearing graduates are eight times as likely to have a computer at home and 16 times as likely to access the Internet from home as those...
Self-interest, when it comes down to it, is the strongest reason for any of us to join the digital era. In programs like Achiever.com and the Cisco Networking Academies, there's self-interest on both sides. The companies help create a skilled workforce that can install and maintain its...