Ford’s Astoundingly Better Idea. Commentary from Jon Katz (Slashdot) on Ford’s announcement that it will be giving computers and net access to each of its 350,000 employees and their families. Other corporations are reportedly already following suit. Possibly good business sense and potentially socially transformative, when you think about it:

“If other American companies adopted Ford’s model, the technological gap looming between

the middle-class and underclass would begin to close. The United States workforce would

become the most technologically sophisticated in the world. The high-tech workforce would

expand dramatically, along with the educational, cultural, social and economic benefits of

computing still unavailable to more than half the American population.”