Owning a PC and having access (even of a basic *nature) to the internet are two different things

The "digital divide" is a serious problem in North America, not to mention China, Musick. But libraries now provide free Internet access in virtually every city and Bill and Melissa Gates have donated tens of millions of dollars to improve Internet access in libraries.

We certainly need to do more, but we are moving in the right direction.

And now people who can't afford a computer or Internet access will have access to some of the finest research libraries in the world.

What an astonishing and wildly exciting advance this is!

Forget how much this will oxygenate the stuffy, sequestered, hallowed halls of haughty academe, but consider what an explosion of new energy, and new insights, innovations and inventions it will produce when people outside a particular field of expertise start cross-pollinating their own research with research inside other fields of investigation which were previously inaccessible to them on a wide open, free-wheeling basis.

KABOOM!!!!