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Prior to the September 11 attacks and the stock market slump, one of the hottest policy issues debated by technology scholars was the so-called racial "digital divide," a term concocted to portray "haves and have nots" in the world of the Internet.

The digital divide is still alive and well....highlighted in an article centered in Fairfax.

Interesting look at how there are new niches in old technologies formed as the demand for archiving increases but the technologies that formed the originals fall out of popular use.

It's all just a little bit of history repeating...some of these quotes sounds awfully familiar these days WRT lamenting how no one writes or reads paper anymore because of the frenetic pace of life.

Amazon announces that 11,000 libraries are now set for loaning Kindle e-books to patrons. How much of library budgets will go to support a reading format that only the relatively well-off can use?