Baby Boomers and the Great Divide
The time frame for births that fall into the baby boomer classification has been defined by sociologists, demographers and the media as 1946 to 1964 census. Encarta defines the Digital Divide as “inequality of access to information technology: the difference in opportunities available to people who have access to modern information technology and those who do not”. This inequality is recorded in a multitude of classifications such as socioeconomic, national, ethnic, and cultural differences and age groups as well. K. L. Norman wrote about this disparity in the book Cyberpsychology, an Introduction to Human- Computer Interaction. Although some baby boomers are powerful and well-adjusted, the majority is not keeping pace with the lightening speed of technological innovations.
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