If the gap between technology rich and technology poor was primarily physical in the 1990s, the gap in this decade is increasingly skills-based.To be “left behind” in the 21st century now means something completely different compared with what it meant at the end of the 20th. Then, Washington worried about getting enough telephones and personal computers into U.S. households. Although that challenge may seem like a distant memory, it has since been replaced by others.
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Who’s off the Internet – and why
If the gap between technology rich and technology poor was primarily physical in the 1990s, the gap in this decade is increasingly skills-based.