Digital Divide

There was a time, not long ago, when the so-called digital divide was perceived and illustrated as a huge canyon or a mile-wide river. On the one side stood the technology-rich, happy because they had access to computers at work, school, and home. On the other stood the technology-poor, unhappy because they had no access at all. The digital divide is possibly the single, largest, segregating force in today¡¦s world. The lack of access, …showed first 75 words of 1094 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1094 total…can¡¦t spell, you can¡¦t URL (Murdock, 2000, p. 2) REFERENCES: Murdock, Deroy. (2000). Digital Divide? What Digital Divide? Retrieved February 19, 2002, from http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi Surmacz, Jon. (2002). Public Schools Building Out Their Networks. Retrieved February 19, 2002, from CNN.com. Why Aren¡¦t More People Online?, (2001). Retrieved February 19, 2002, http://www.ipsos-reid.com/search/media/dsp_displaypr.prnt.cfm?ID_to_view=1244 Benton Foundation. (2002). Digital Divide Basics Fact Sheet. Retrieved February 19, 2002, from Digital Divide Network.