An interesting OpEd about google from today's NYT (free account needed) here
Sometimes the best metaphor for the Internet seems to be the population of earth itself, in which every human is a Web page related by kinship and conversation to all the other Web pages on earth. Sometimes the metaphor is a globe papered over with hyperlinked Web pages from which, more and more, tiny beacons arise, beaming updates to our computers like the old RKO tower. Whatever the metaphor, the only certainty is that we're going to need help finding anything for a long time yet to come.| Categorized in: Topic: Digital Divide
The findings of a new Pew Internet & American Life Report, Rural Areas and the Internet were released on 2.17.04
Of course, numbers and polls never account for the actual lives of people and citizens, but I find these numbers interesting:
67% of urban residents use the Internet.
66% of suburban residents use the Internet.
52% of rural residents use the Internet.
An important discussion in the early 21st Century.