Program Archive: Digital Divides
January 2007
This time we explore how modern technology can shake up our relationships. On the agenda: A conversation with the real experts on MySpace and texting, stand-up comedy from Amy Hyatt-Blat, new songs from The Smarts and Jeff Horwich, and a conversation with our poor buddy who had to subsist on an information diet of nothing but YouTube for a week. Recorded with a live audience at MPR's UBS Forum in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Title: "We're So Connected" by Jeff Horwich (with The Smarts)
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Title: "Please Don't Tell Me Anything I Don't Want to Know" by The Smarts
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A new kind of digital divide
As more small towns are getting access to highspeed internet, a new kind of digital divide is forming: not one of access, but of choice. (01/18/2007)
Your partner is just "a click away," but that might be farther than you think
The Internet is allowing us to connect to people on the other side of the world, who we never thought we'd meet. But how does it affect our most intimate connections? (01/18/2007)
Grandma cam
Margaret Langer is a grandmother on the cutting edge. She recently started using a free online video telephone service to connect with her daughter and grandchildren living in The Philippines. "This is very recent, this kind of quality and this kind of ability to view the video," she says. "The best experience we've had was just before Christmas, watching the kids playing on their slide." For Margaret, technology can come close -- but can't replace the real thing. (01/19/2007)
Dial a friend
Andrew and Jim find it hard to imagine their relationship without cell phones. For them, it's more than a convenience; it's a way of being together all the time. "On days when we have a completely opposite schedule, it could be a half dozen to a dozen calls. It's just that it's non-stop," Andrew says. "It's comforting," adds Jim. "I think it just adds to the whole richness of the relationship." (01/19/2007)
Who gets the final word?
Think all teens are into MySpace and text messaging? These two twins aren't. For Ian, text messaging is "an incredibly time consuming and inefficient way to communicate with someone." Andrew, a confessed "grammar freak" is irritated by the style of English that gets used on text messaging. And the trend of ending relationships with text messaging? "A whole new level of insensitivity," says Andrew. (01/19/2007)
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