The term has been used by U.S. Vice President AI Gore, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others, and has been covered on the front page of The New York Times and Time magazine. Access to computer technology is unevenly distributed. Digital Divide is the first book to ask hard questions about the social impact of this inequity. Author and technology expert David Bolt examines how the widespread use of computers and on-line communications may deepen the divisions of race, of gender, and between rich and poor in our society. Today, whites are twice as likely as blacks to own computers and three times as likely to be on the Internet. The economic gap between computer haves and have-nots continues to grow. Organizations diverse as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Bill Gates` Learning Foundation have begun to look at the digital divide. Digital Divide explains the social, economic, and political ramifications of these trends as our young people prepare to step into the 21st century.