The Digital Divide, is a symptom of a few larger issues. * Wealth and funding divide, caused by lack of a (fully funding) national budget and distribution syst

The Digital Divide, is a symptom of a few larger issues. * Wealth and funding divide, caused by lack of a (fully funding) national budget and distribution system. * An access to the Information Superhighway divide, mostly enabled by failing to classify the underlying structure as a utility, which all (taxpayers) pay to pave out (like roads) and then maybe have services on top of (like power, water, sewer; things that the very poor might have discounted rates on, but still first class access to). * A resource allocation issue; because having these research tools at home and a way of using them with the collective knowledge of our species (the Internet) wasn't even on the horizon before, and efforts to remotely approach it were hampered by the budget issues mentioned above. Yet even in the very affluent districts I suspect a computer lab at school or in a very nice library is the best current state of affairs. * As CGP Grey correctly noted (I can't remember if this was in a video, podcast, or just on a forum somewhere): schools are really warehouses for mass babysitting kids during the day and also places of training them to be humans, rather than animals. Surely I'm not the only person that, by the end of highschool, viewed schools as 'day prison for minors, with access to limited training'.