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November 29, 2003
What Digital Divide?
Business Week
questions the notion of a digital divide, in an article that suggests that the internet is no longer being socially divisive.
Business Week quotes
Donald Hicks, professor of political economy and public policy at the University of Texas, who argues that "the market seems to be taking care of digital divides."
Many of those not online in the US, at least, are avoiding the web because they don't want to use it, with researchers identifying a group of 'net evaders,' who reject the internet as a point of pride.
