The Dying Digital Divide

For years, poverty groups have bemoaned a "digital divide" in America and around the world: inequalities in wealth threatened to leave much of the population unwired and, for all intents and purposes, in the dark. Today, the Wall Street Journal covers how in the world's poorest nations, web-enabled mobile phones are bridging that gap.

This has repercussions in America, as well, as mobile internet access becomes more and more widespread. Not only does it connect new users to the online world, it gives thsoe savvy enough to use it a direct link to those users.

In other words, if you have a story to tell in the next ten years, you will have to consider how to fit that story on the small screen of a cell phone.