Response to "(Cyber) Conspiracy Theories"

Okay, I'm only half way through the second page and I need to stop for a second. In order to become a cyber human, you need to become  raceless, genderless, and free of ethnicity and any socioeconomic status? First off, not only is that completely impossible (unless you are in some weird asexual, a-ethnic cult) but it's also just completely irrational. I understand the concept of removing prior experience, and placing people as equals, but that doesn't mean we need to be the same. Aren't there always several pathways that lead  to the same point? So theoretically, a low-income black person could have been raised and given the same education and hired into the same job position as a high-class white person.

To become part of the digital society, it is completely absurd that all differing factors need to be removed. If we removed what makes individuals, well, individual... then what's the point of any civilization at all. There's no discussion or development to be had or made if there's no room for differing opinions. While the information we use digitally can be cloned, this in no way means the users of the media need to be cloned as well.

(Also, what makes digital society different than real society? Why do cyber-humans have to be clones in the digital sphere but diversity is okay in real life?)

Okay, rant done. Now time to read the rest of the article and hopefully let the article sort itself out. Be back later with more insights.

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Now that I've read the article and understand why the gap in digital literacy and comfort-ability is where it's at for whites and minorities, I'm confused as to why there's not a whole lot of progress to try and mend the gap. The minorities are expected to be able to pick up and function at a level comparable to someone who's been raised with technology and uses it as if its second nature, when clearly, for the minorities, its a foreign concept. There sees to be very little work done to bring minorities up to speed, however. Maybe it's for fear of coming off racist or judgmental, but the gap seems to be ignored. I'm reminded of the Apple commercials for the iPad

This digital media artifact is meant to be used as for learning and business work, but the commercial only shows white hands. They don't even pretend to be demographically aimed at a variety of races. The gap will never be mended if no one's willing to mend it. It makes my pessimistic brain wonder if at the heart of corporations, the gap is ever meant to be mended...