Tech Transformation: The Third Digital Divide

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Tech Transformation: The Third Digital Divide



I was reading a chapter entitled "Present Tense and Future Tensions" from Literacy 2.0 today and I liked the way the digital divide was described.
The 1990s - the first digital divide - was the gap between those who had access to technology and those who didn't. The first digital divide was about who had the hardware.

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