Silicon Valley Not Immune to Digital Divide
The Dispatch - Digital Divide in Silicone Valley reports today that a survey of 600 people in the Silicon Valley area shows a larger than anticipated gap between Hispanics and non-Hispanics in terms of computer ownership and Internet access. Language and socio-economic conditions were cited as major factors....missing from this report are generational differences in ownership and use (sigh). There is an inference here that due to the heavy concentration of computer related businesses in the valley that those business products and services would somehow automatically spill over into the community...perhaps by osmosis.