The NewsHour reviews the Year in Cyberspace . Browse the Online NewsHour's coverage of cyberspace . This is not an issue much discussed online, and opportunistic politics like the President and Al Gore talk much about the bridge to the 21 st century but are short on how we're going to pay for it. That money wouldn't wire up the schools in Brooklyn. Many online believe computers will eventually become as inexpensive as cars and telephones and as ubiquituous.
Technology generally makes itself cheaper and easier to use over time.
I'm skeptical of that. The online world is a complex and expensive culture and many underclass kids are resistant to using it. I think this will be a bitter and divisive moral issue, especially when people who are offline realize what an enormous political and economic disadvantage they're operating under.