II: The Technology Gap

The "ever-closing technology gap" is what separates early adapters to automatic alertness strategies from gaining their full audience. The thing that makes closing of this gap so crucial to the spread of new media literacy, is that once automated alertness becomes the standard by which we live by, the technology gap will virtually ceese to exist. When it becomes common to recieve our critical information (as deemed by the individual) automatically, and be reminded automatically we will have no disconnect.

An instant example, your elderly neighbor who dosen't still quite understand how to check her email, or perhaps choses to do so only very rarely when she is expecting something from her family. As web-savy generations grow, this problem will occur less, but even if it didn't once automatic alertness becomes the standard, there will be nothing to check, any piece of information that is categorically deemed urgent enough to be sent automatically will forgo the manual steps were techological mishandling and forgettfulness can occur.