Abstract
In some quarters the information superhighway is billed as the direct route to equality.But others regard it as the terrain upon which a new elitism is already emerging.
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Gary Stix and Paul Wallich, ‘A Digital Fix for the Third World?’, in The Computer in the 21st Century special issue of Scientific American vol. 6, no. 1, 1995, p. 43.
Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (New York: Viking, 1995)
Victor Keegan, ‘The Wired and the Unwired’, Times Literary Supplement, 4 July 1997, p. 6.
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Calcutt, A. (1999). Equality/elitism. In: White Noise. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373686_5
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