The NoNet:
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute shows that around one third of British households don’t own a computer, and just under a third of those stopped in a street poll claimed they were “complete technophobes”. We shouldn’t be surprised. There was always going to be a take-up plateau for what remains a fundamentally text-based medium, even with ever-reducing PC & ISP costs. And that’s simply because OECD data shows that 22 percent of Britons are functionally illiterate. The UK’s Basic Skills Agency confirms that figure, claiming 24.4 percent functional illiteracy in the West Midlands.
The NoNet (UK survey shows around 30 percent don’t use net)

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by D’log :: blogging since 2000 » Free laptops
24 Sep 2008 at 19:48
[…] agree that it’s “not about the access”. As I’ve said here before, a simple lack of basic literacy is what seems to be holding many poorer people back from computers […]