What do the futurists say?
Steven Miller, in Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power and the Information Superhighway (1996), speaks to this question within the context of the information poor and the technology “haves and have nots” in the emergent new field of electronic communication and commerce. This is a particularly important issue for the Hispanic community in the United States given the low levels of educational achievement and the paucity of computer access and new information technology use within our ranks. Miller sees the agenda for 1998 and beyond as one of maximizing equity and diversity of access and use within the diversed communities that need to be served by the new electronic marketplace, as both government and the private sector work to promote technological literacy and universal access to these new informa tion tools and resources in an effort to prevent some type of “information access apartheid ” . He encourages the public and private sectors to be cognizant of the fact that as more of our
