According to Mashable, everything is moving online. Job applications, health care and insurance information, news sources, whatever application you can think of with the exception of a voter application is online. On the surface, this doesn't sound too bad, it sounds like the beginning of a paperless future with more trees. But there's a downside to everything. What about the people without internet access? Minority populations living in poverty have a low internet presence; how do they access job applications or health care insurance information? Either they don't or they access it in public sites, which often times is not the most savory decision considering the hypersensitive information that's just left on on server.
Who's most affected by the "digital divide?"
Goodman, Jessica. "The Digital Divide Is Still Leaving Americans Behind." Mashable. N.p., 18 Aug 2013. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. <http://mashable.com/2013/08/18/digital-divide/>.
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