The just-ended Thanksgiving holiday is one of America's best. It is a day devoted to contemplating the powers far beyond our control that have shaped our lives for the better. The common name for them is blessings, be they of family, friends, health, knowledge or possessions, and we dedicate this holiday to the spirit of gratitude for all we have been given.
Blessings, however are unevenly distributed. Stark disparity is the way of things, whether between nations, regions or the citizens of our own community. As your community uses information and communications technology to build economic prosperity – becoming more "intelligent," in our terms – you need to pay attention to who is getting left out of the broadband economy. Otherwise you risk making existing social ills worse, at a cost to the lives of the excluded and to the community as a whole.
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Author: Robert Bell
