They are primarily the well-educated citizens of industrialised nations. The information poor, both in industrialised countries and in the developing world, are falling further and further behind. The world has changed. Once people had to go to a particular place in order to communicate with others. This is no longer the case with the advent of pagers, mobile phones and laptop computers with communication cards.
Communication now comes to people.
Some of the issues that surround the advancing Information Age are considered here. It is evident from this discussion that perceptions of what is appropriate and beneficial may be very different to what really is appropriate and beneficial. What can go wrong ICT is not without its problems or its disasters. Many of these issues tend to go unnoticed unless they result in some newsworthy story. Recent press stories include those about the Melissa computer virus that infected more than 100,000 mostly corporate PCs within only three days and one of the most destructive known viruses, the Chernobyl virus which infected over one million PCs mainly in countries with developing and transitional economies.