Digital Divide Writing Assignment

Digital Divide can be a potential problem in the following areas; education, health, government , entertainment and work. I will describe some of these problems. As far as education goes, technology is improving and more schools are becoming more involved with the computer world. This seems like a good idea, but one thing that needs to be considered, is aside from managing the budget for the new computers, training for teachers or anyone that will be using these computers needs to be considered in with the budget so they can be trained to integrate technology. Aside from that, problems that can arise are a dependence on the computer when dealing with writing. I know for myself, I have become dependent on word's spell check, where if I spell something wrong I don't even attempt to fix it, but rather right click and let spell check show me the right way to spell it. I also feel that when students are always on the computer, interaction with others is down and being social and interacting is crucial towards growing up, because in the work life,  you always have to deal with other people and so education is a good time to work on communication skills, and those are at a minimum when always on the computer. Problems also arise when dealing with the government and health as well. Although their are a lot of things you can now do online, like file for unemployment or taxes, take driving lessons, process health forms, not everyone has access to computers, let alone to get on the internet, so this can be a major problem for those unaccessible to the web. For entertainment, what happened to the times where we used to watch shows on television? Now, everything is online, which is convenient for some, but again not everyone as a computer with internet access. Television is loosing its overall views as people don't even rush home to watch their favorite shows as they can just catch it online later. Lastly, in the work field, a lot of problems arise. For one thing, stores could potentially loose business as now everything is being put online. I work for a clothing company, Abercrombie and Fitch, that has opened four other stores, Abercrombie kids, Hollister Co., Ruehl No. 924, and Gilly Hicks. Ruehl opened a few years ago and they held the clothes off the internet for about 2 years to get buyers to come to the store and see the atmosphere. At first this made me upset because I wanted to see the clothes when the store opened and their were only 13 stores in the country, none of which were close to my home, however when I came out to San Francisco and went to the store out here, it was way more exciting to go into this new store and not have any idea of what the clothes or store was going to be like. Now that more stores have opened, they have put clothes online for buyers to view and purchase on the web. Another problem in the work area is that adults, in the older generations are down right computer illiterate. My generation is not because we have grown up with it, so it is simple and easy to us, but for our parents generation, it is all new. It is sort of like learning a new language, the younger you are the easier it is to comprehend and understand. Technology will continue to increase and hopefully it will be useful for our society.