re Shawn's query, I fear that increasing reliance on the internet as a
medium of organizing, exciting as I find it to be, will only serve to
further differentiate the "haves" and "have-nots" in our society, given the
heavy investment in hardware, software, connection charges involved (not to
mention investment in education as precursor to it's use as a hp/CD tool).
Latest figures from Stats Canada indicate only 7% of Canadians are on the
internet. Like other consumer innovations of advanced capitalism,
information technology is an incredible boone to a few, while
systematically excluding the many.

I'm afraid this is something we should be concerned about, rather than
being entirely seduced by the medium.

Blake Poland
Behavioural Science
University of Toronto
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