The Other Side of the Digital Divide
from the far-away-from-the-internet dept
There has been a lot of talk recently about the "digital divide", but this is one of the few articles I've seen that explores some folks who are on the "other side" of that divide. It's about a teenage girl who won an iMac (while surfing the web from her school) but the nearest phone line to the trailer she lives in is 8 miles away, so her internet ready iMac won't be accessing the internet any time soon.
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