Definations

What kind of loss is humanity really suffering if all of the world's population is not logged into the internet for the same reasons? I know the potential of the internet is to use it as a resource for getting information and providing a 'utopian' society in which race fail to matter but who is to say what the defination of information even is? As seen in the Nakamura essay, the study shown for use on the internet between races fell under five catagories such as for seeking information, fun, etc. They use this information of tell of the divide among cultures on the internet. What a study like this fails to do is idenify that not every culture (or even every person) has the same words for fun. Looking up a collection of sites that idenify with culture under the ACRL on African Americans is pure proof of this (list of sites found-http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues1999/january1/africanamerican.cfm). African American history is steeped in the importance of music and dance but under the Pew system (in the article) these things fall under the heading of 'fun' when it could be done for history or for empowerment of the past. So the question is this- is the use of the internet to create one culture actually positive? In the process of doing so, people can lose track of their past and the importance they found in it (would you call this reverse racism even while the internet tries too hard to have one culture?) It seems we keep creating new technologies only to bash them down for being morally wrong but here I think something different is present. It is not the problem that we have more than one culture on the internet, the problem lies in our accepting