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Dealing with the Digital Divide: The Rough Realities of Cyberspace

In a time when familiar TV ads show everyday Americans proclaiming that they are not depending on government, counting on big companies, or waiting for fat inheritances, because they continuously trade stocks online to get rich, the digital divide has become a major worry. What this means is not clear, but it usually boils down to a common package of household PC ownership, individual computer literacy, and good Internet access. Whether it is President Clinton declaring he wants to "slam shut the digital divide," Secretary of Commerce William Daley musing that the US should set "a goal where we'd have...