I&#x27;m with vinceguidry here.  I can be poor enough that I have to walk to the library to use a computer.  Once there, though, I can Google basically all of the world&#x27;s information.  (20 years ago, I could have tried to look it up in the library&#x27;s card catalog, I suppose, and hoped that they had a relevant book, and that I was looking under the right topic, and that the book, if it existed in the catalog, was listed under the right topic, and that the book wasn&#x27;t checked out or misplaced...)<p>20 years ago, if you were poor and unemployed, you went through the help-wanted ads in the newspaper.  Today, you can look at those same ads on-line, or you can go to craigslist.<p>20 years ago, if you were poor and the cops beat you up, you whined about The Man to your buddies.  Today, you hope one of your buddies got a video of it, and you post it online and bring down public outrage on the PD.  (Whether the PD changes or not as a result, at least your voice can be really heard - to the point that sometimes the president starts putting pressure on the PD.)<p>I could go on.  The point is something that PG has said:  Technology is a multiplier.  If you&#x27;ve got something you want to do, technology can make it take much less effort.  But if you&#x27;re hopeless and adrift, with nothing you&#x27;re aiming for, all the technology can do is fill your time with fluff so that you don&#x27;t feel so bad.  That&#x27;s not much of a win for those people.