| Updated: 9/27/02; 9:56:18 AM. |
| Education/Technology A Dispute Over Wireless Networks. Time Warner Cable has warned some cable-modem subscribers that operating wireless networks and inviting others to freely share them violates their subscription agreements. By Peter Meyers. [New York Times: Technology] 5:20:58 PM
Shirky: Half the World: "The phrase "Half the world has never made a phone call" or some variation thereof has become an urban legend, a widely believed but unsubstantiated story about the nature of the world. It has appeared countless times over the last decade, in essentially the same form and always without attribution. Where did that phrase come from? How did it take on such a life of its own? And, most importantly, why has it gotten so much airtime in the debate over the digital divide when it is so obviously wrong?
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