Also you are closing out many who do not readily deal with knowledge and commercial creativity, craft and experience are resistant to your paradigms.
What you have delineated are the boundaries of the next class divide. Technocrats and neo-con economists may own this current cycle, but peak oil will do for them. keep to the Fen Causeway
The cost of access to information and communication channels are dropping like a stone too.
That sum may be a trifle to the technocratic, but I don't think computer ownership in the UK has broken the 60% mark yet where I believe we are in the vanguard of Europe.
This revolution would be no different to any other. A minority, however large, will benefit enormously, and a majority will be left behind more or less where they were.
Part-time provision in libraries simply allows the temporarily poor technocratic to keep up, it does not enable others to catch up. Glib statements maybe but it's how I see it.
I just don't believe in utopian visions. We've had the "energy too cheap to meter" promises before, the Marvel comic visions of the future of leisured societies and somehow they only seem to come true for a favoured few.
No, I'm not dystopian either but I think we have to work harder for an egalitarian future than just assume it is the inevitable result of technological advances. After all, the advances are owned by the current elites and they haven't impressed me with their generosity yet. They ain't giving nothing away. keep to the Fen Causeway
In the US public libraries have computer centers with Internet access even in the back-end of beyond, where I live. While not "in the home" this global communication and information service is available, free, for those who want to use it. A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run
