Computers are a lot like books when they were first utilised. Initially they are used only by a narrow set of people but to the advantage of everybody - for example, medical researchers. But what you really want is to have a concept of computer literacy like you have for normal literacy. You can achieve this, for example, by providing every library with a PC that is linked to the Internet. As part of your school curriculum you should be exposed to the Internet.
Many countries aim to get PC access in their schools.
The US and Israel have a larger number of PCs per school than any other country. Even better is to provide every pupil with a laptop - a project we are supporting with software in 50 schools around the world. At government level there are some innovative ideas such as a public kiosk where people can use PCs to fill out forms and other tasks linked to local government. This is already true in the UK where terminals at post offices, accessed by cards, allow users to run applications. These are just some of the ideas we encourage governments to utilise to widen the use of computers.