Your discussions about governmental initiatives to get pcs to those who don't have them reminds me of the Great Unspoken Issue - those who don't actually WANT internet access.
I know of some people who feel that way, and to be honest there are many days when I think I could very easily fall into that category too. If my job changed (I'm in IT for goodness sake) then I genuinely am unsure whether I'd bother with home access.
I can't imagine it will become illegal not to have it, so I guess if everything goes online it will just get more and more inconvenient not to. But that will raise hackles, and some will just go without.
I wonder if there are stats somewhere - there must be - as to how many people in the UK are refuseniks, and whether they really are, as one might think, all over the age of not young.
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