Milner is certainly right in some ways. The old digital divide is now a chasm.
The 25% of people in the UK who have no access to the Internet are, indeed,
profoundly unequal with the rest of us – the 75% who have the good fortune or
wisdom to know our way around the Internet. As Web 2.0 morphs into the raging
real-time stream of services like Twitter, those poor souls who don’t even know
how to send emails are, like their mid 19th century handworker ancestors, doomed
to analogue oblivion. Luddism is for losers. Aside from the super rich who can
afford their own Internet butlers, technological ignorance is the symbol of
failure, the red cross of shame, in our Darwinian digital “democracy”.
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