Motivation
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Fairly soon, virtually everyone will have a screen and an
Internet connection. In that world, argues futurist Marina
Gorbis, the big divide will be "the motivational divide" - who
has the self-motivation, grit and persistence to take advantage
of all the free or cheap online tools to create, collaborate
and learn.
The quote below is about political knowledge
but the same could be said about any are of knowledge
under conditions of enhanced consumer choice, the knowledge gap
between more and less motivated citizen widens. In short, when
it comes to the richness of political knowledge, the rich are
getting richer and the poor are getting poorer"
So it's not a difference is access but a
difference in motivation ! The first quote is
from Thomas Friedman. Here is a post from a guy
who read that post but is wondering about the motivation of
his students when they have every thing they need.
The idea is that the motivational divide" replaces
the digital divide !. It not the rich who will
enhierit the world but the motivated .