The great digital divide

The digital divide is a concept that keeps evolving with time. In the beginning the digital divide was a concept that was about the distribution of the material possession of computers. In the early days of computerdom there were realatively few computers distributed across the population. This left a divide among the population because there were those taking advantage of computers and those who did not have the opportunity, thus creating a divide. Now with time and evolution of computers, computers are really cheap and they are virtually everywhere, and the gap of "material possession" has evolved as well into an intelligence gap.

This is a really big problem, I don't think people realize it though. In our competitive world everyone has to have some mandatory skills to be efficient. But when we have this divide, what is it doing for education? I think it is throwing a wrench in and confounding the whole system. But how? Our society throws our education system so many wrong signal. They want this or that, but don't give us the time and ability to implicate processes to reach those goal, so the bigger goal now is how to work together and reach our education goals as well as filling in the hole that makes a great divide.