* This article in this week's "Knowledge @ Wharton", Pennsylvania University's Wharton Business School (US) newsletter, started everything off. Over the past few years we have slowly come to realise that we actually do have a Digital Divide between the IT haves and have-nots. Since then, research activities by groups such as MIT are attempting to bring affordable computer education to countries still struggling with poverty. Unfortunately, it will take more than volunteer work to rid us of this Digital Divide, and its realization is still far away.
* The Wharton article though focuses on an advanced form of the above, namely an "Advanced Digital Divide" that separates the merely technologically able with the technologically enhanced within our advanced IT economies.
* So as technological innovation is more and more a case of innovation for the sake of innovation, one question begs to be answered: what is the reason for technological improvement anyway? In the current whirlwind of innovation, is the current rate of technological innovation really necessary? In my daily searches of the web over the past weeks, I picked up a pretty interesting track related to the theme of innovation. I don't know if I should call this a track/tune or a podcast, I guess you're going to have to listen to it to find out.
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