The New Digital Underclass

This piece is fascinating…especially the section on the technological class divide. A good read.

“Once upon a time, literacy and numeracy were the paths to social mobility in its broadest sense; now, technology appears to have raised rather than lowered the barrier. Even something so apparently trivial and ubiquitous as social networking is a shock to kids who have lived life off the virtual grid, and who then make it to a college environment that is now, in large part, a virtual experience.”

(via Forbes)