From: telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org   
      
   By Sue Halpern   
      
   Early on in the pandemic, Larry Irving left Washington, D.C., and took   
   up residence in a rental property on the edge of Shenandoah National   
   Park, in Virginia, where, he soon found, the Internet service was not   
   sufficient to run his consulting business. So Irving would drive to   
   the local library each day and work in his car, piggybacking on the   
   library's Wi-Fi. More than two decades earlier, as the Assistant   
   Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information in the   
   Clinton Administration, Irving had popularized the term "digital   
   divide" to describe the disparity between Internet haves and   
   have-nots. "We did a series of studies that showed that if you were   
   poor, if you were a minority, if you were elderly, and if you were   
   rural, you were less likely to have access to the Internet," Irving   
   told me. "Poverty was the constant."   
      
   https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-the-bide   
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