Bridging the Digital Divide

I just had a long conversation with one of my students on the the bus from campus last week, talking about the Mobile Phone as the de-facto bridge for the digital divide and NOT the PC. In this very timely article, Mark Dean in the San Jose Mercury News clearly explains that the age of the PC is "drawing to a close". He says that "connectivity trumps processing power in this new era," an idea that has been the heart of many of our recent conversations in the Mobile Consumer Lab.