One of the better year-in-review summaries, State of the Divide in 2004: Indicators of Progress and Challenge , includes links to a number of good articles including one by Dirk Knemeyer, Founding Principal of Involution Studios LLC:
"Since its inception in the early 1990s, the World Wide Web has been visualized as a global communication tool that would enable meaningful participation by members of widely dispersed work groups, empower active learning networks and enable inclusive participation of ordinary people with democratic decision making. Easy to use open content authoring software designed to facilitate this vision (such as blogs and wikis) is widely available. However, still as of 2004, most private and public organizations are slow to adopt these participatory web-based tools in part due to carryover traditions from the print only era of top down public publishing and a lack of experience and skill in public publishing."
I am pretty sure that Gutenberg never thought that paper and print would be so ingrained in global cultures that one day print publishing (and all that goes with it) would be identified as part of the digital divide. Perhaps we are prisoners of Gutenberg...