COMMENTARY: With an industry and country as rich as this one, we must bridge the digital divide. Now

THIS SHOULD BE EMBARASSING. For all of us. The announcement Stateside that the Federal Communications Commission is teaming up with the cable industry and many others down south to offer low-income households access to computers, training and cheaper broadband ($9.95 a month), shows the Americans have it right. The digital divide is not a rural-urban gap but a cost/knowledge/education chasm, regardless of where you live. Many Americans can’t afford the $40-or-more per month it costs to get broadband at home, can’t afford a computer in the first place, and without broadband – as we all have come to realize – those...