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The sound of paradigms being shifted in the morning

March 18, 2008 - 7:28pm — yelvington

Neil McIntosh loves his little new Eee: "Don’t you just love the sound of.. er… paradigms being shifted in the morning?"

I've written previously about the significance of disruptive, low-end products in general, and Linux for consumers in particular. And I've noted that my kids, my mother, and my mother-in-law are all running Linux.

As McIntosh notes, it's the network, not the computer, that counts. As prices continue to drop, as open-source tools displace expensive proprietary systems, as Moore's Law and miniaturization continue to put more and more power into the hands of more and more people, the so-called digital divide just fades away.

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March 20, 2008 - 4:46pm — NetConcepts (not verified)

Digital Divide is by choice

Those that don't have access to technology are typically that way because they choose not to use it. Every library in America now has High speed internet for the public to use. It is fear that keeps them from learning how to use the instruments that will free their mind ......

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