The Change Mariner: With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide

May 31, 2003

With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide

Three years ago, Shirley Hughes lived a life of dreary routine, collecting welfare checks, bringing up two children as a single mother, passing her evenings in front of the television.
Today, she teaches her neighbors how to use computers at a local college while studying for a teaching certificate. At home, she skips "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in favor of the Internet, which she surfs avidly, downloading patterns for patchwork quilts, her favorite hobby.

Ms. Hughes's computer is connected to the Internet "24/7," as she puts it, through a technology known as Wi-Fi.

Posted by Bob King at May 31, 2003 6:29 PM | TrackBack
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