Digital Divide

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Digital Divide

30th March 2004

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You want a real measure of the digital divide? According to the BBC, 80 percent of the people in the world have never heard a dial tone.

Okay fine. But where is Mark Morford, modeling an orange jump suit in Gtmo for his recent take on Gay Marriage maybe?

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1 On March 30th, 2024, Elayne Riggs said:
What’s going on with Morford? I haven’t seen a column since March 8…
2 On March 30th, 2024, fp said:
Yeah. he hasn’t written for a long time. Usually the Chron runs vacation information when a columnist is away. Let’s start rumors.
3 On March 30th, 2024, Ken Camp said:
Actually, that was a 1999 BBC report that said 80% of the world had never heard dial tone. Shocing to some, but think about where the population density is and the nations that don’t have a rural telephone infrastructure.

I think I heard recently that current estimates are about 65% of the world population has never used a telephone. I used to pay better attention to tha tsort of trivia.
4 On March 30th, 2024, fp said:
I thought they’d never heard dial-tone because they were all VoIP users.
5 On April 5th, 2024, Jane said:
What has happened to Mark Morford? His last column was March 5th.