I spend a lot of my days helping students cross the Digital Divide--especially mature students. In this tiny community college library we have 103 computers and they get A LOT of use. Many mature students have no confidence (I'm not good with computers) and the staff helps out a lot.
Online life is more and more important..."check online" or "apply online" is said more often.
What about the rest of the world?
I've been following the $100 laptop story for a few years now; look at the promotion that is going on now!
http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php
If I were a wealthy internet millionaire--or even a prosperous one, and not a lowly grad student--I'd purchase one of these for every kid on my list. They could play with it--I could play with it--and kids in the rest of the world would get a chance as well. I can see the extended family "chatting" on these all around the Xmas tree.....playing games from across the room....
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