Who doesn’t have the internet?

Digital Divide: the gap between those people with effective access to digital and information technology and those without. It’s the unequal access by some members of the society to information and communications technology, and the unequal acquisition of related skills. The digital divide exists between groups of various genders, incomes, races and locations.[1] The term global digital divide refers to differences in technology access between countries. (Definition provided by wikipedia.org)



America as a society doesn’t always realize how blessed it truly is. I know I don’t. During the summer I moved into a new place that was fully loaded: electric, water, cable, fully furnished, and internet. I was juiced. But then the internet started acting up. I know a lot of people have experienced this problem but I thought never to this degree. The internet would not work from 9 am to 6 pm pretty much when the sun went up the internet stopped working, like peek hours or something. I thought this was hell on earth.

Recently I learned about the digital divide and found that not everyone has internet or even a computer. You would think I would figure this out after spending two weeks in India were you have to go to a little shop that houses computers and you pay for minutes used on the internet. Could you imagine how much money Americans would have to spend for using the internet if they were charged by the minute?

I mean we use the internet at out homes, jobs, in cafes (mainly Starbucks), in our cars even in the elevators. Wooo…could you imagine how much your bill would be? I’m getting chills right now.