with this quote, from an interview published last week in Hour Magazine:

“In that environment [where money = power], the freedom of the internet is interesting, but I think it would be much more interesting to get inner-city youth computer savvy. It used to be that the underprivileged were about ten paces behind the privileged. Now, with technology growing at such a rate, the underprivileged are miles behind, and it’s growing wider day by day. If you’re not computer savvy at a time when people are buying stocks with a point and click, you’re doomed.” (from Hour’s interview with Henry Rollins).

I remember when I first hopped on the net it was all about access. I was a member of the local Freenet, and that was the issue. I miss that discussion. It’s important, even in the face of an ever-growing population of net users.