The digital divide is bunk Digital Divide6/5/2000; 7:15:23 AM April 17, 2000: The article provides a much needed dose of common sense into the debate, but it does overstate its case a bit.

"By far the most important factors facilitating or inhibiting Internet access are education and age, and not income—nor race/ethnicity or gender, each of which accounts for less than a 5 percent change in rates of access and is statistically insignificant."

See, there is a digital divide, but the true divide is between those who are online and those who aren't. That may seem like circular logic at first, but realize this is in stark opposition to the usual opinion on the topic, which insists it's the usual convenient race/gender/class excuses. Note: it's an excuse when you simply assume those are the causes, it's a valid reason when you have research and logic to back those reasons up... same standards as "the dog ate my homework"!Especially in this case, if you approach the problem as a race/class issue, and there's proof that it's not a factor, then you will accomplish precisely nothing... but I suppose you'll get re-elected doing it. There is a divide, but attack the root of the problem: Education. You can't do so much about age .