| The Digital Divide that President Clinton talked about | | | | The ability of computer software to translate |
| during his term never materialized, most of the 300 | | | | languages is helping immensely in crossing barriers due |
| plus countries of the World do have Internet Access | | | | to language, race, culture and geographic location. |
| of some type. This is a good thing and it means that | | | | Much of this technology came about thanks to the |
| humans have risen to the occasion and bridged the | | | | needs of the Military and the United Nations in crossing |
| perceived gap between nations of the world; rich and | | | | cultural divides. Now these innovations have prevented |
| poor. | | | | the digital divide. |
| The OLPC (one laptop per child) project is making the | | | | Today over 75% of Americans are on the Internet |
| Internet Accessible to children of many third world | | | | and China over 25% and growing steadily. In fact, |
| nations and although that project is slow out of the | | | | there are more Chinese than Americans online now |
| gate it is working and will continue to grow. Already | | | | and since they have 1.3 Billion people it appears no |
| we see kids collaborating who live on other continents. | | | | other nation can ever catch them. Whereas, we in |
| Kids in Central and South America are communicating | | | | America have crossed the digital divide and are helping |
| with kids in Asia, Indonesia, Australia, North America | | | | the World cross it too, there are other nations busily |
| and Europe. Imagine that, a world united thanks to the | | | | working to insure that their citizens are not left without |
| children? | | | | the power Internet information source. Think on this. |