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Howard hit on one major takeaway that I had from our week in the UK. "Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don't know how," he said. He's convinced that what's most important is not access to the Internet - we have more than a billion people on the Internet now and there are 4 billion phones out there - but access to knowledge and literacies for the digital age. "The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift" and discern. "Skill plus social" is the key.

Infotention is a word I came up with to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters.