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Politics has intersted me for quite some time, and that was what drew me onto the web in the first place.
After exploring the web I realized that it was not somehow isolated from the wider political world. Learning that there was a political dimension to IT and the internet itself (anti-trust, open source, marketing spy cookies, etc) really encouraged me to learn as much as possible.
Although I wish others could see the social importance of being a little IT savvy, I do appreciate how my 85 year old grandmother can't see it and chastises me for not being "in the real world".
There were, after all, elements of her youth that I would never be able to conceptualize.
I would rather 20% of that 42% learn about cookies and spyware, than the whole 42% receive free Compaq plug-n-plays.
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