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Archive for February 11th, 2007

Discussion of Comments on Hyper-Connectivity

Location: In the Ottawa Airport

As I mentioned in my last entry, I’ve modified the format of my few weeks’ old blog a bit so that I can interleave some of my more formal postings with dialog around the comments that people have been leaving. This is possibly an unconventional way to do this, but I think it’s important because a number of threads have emerged that deserve further dialog.

One of the most interesting threads was the view that hyper-connectivity may increase the digital divide. Ben Roome described it as “the gap between the technological haves and have nots.” I’m not sure that hyper-connectivity would by itself ...

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