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What causes the digital divide (those who have technology and those who do not)?
The digital divide is caused by many different factors, the only two i can come up with right now the availability of technology and age. Not everyone has the money to buy a computer or pay for internet access, that creates a huge gap between those who are lucky enough to have these services available to them. Also age is an important factor because the older you the more complicated in going to be able to understand how something works, for example, a couple of months ago i had to explain an 80 year old what the difference between an ipod and a iphone was, for most people my age that would be a dumb question to ask, lets just keep in mind that 70,60 or even ten years ago an mp3 was unknown to the majority of the world.
One of the big factors as you mentioned causing the digital divide is money. Typically technology like computers or cell phones do cost money, so it does cause a rift between the haves and the have nots.
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