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Digital Divide: The economic and cultural promises of today's dazzling computer and Internet technologies aren't necessarily made to everyone in society.

Data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, for example, show that the age-old inequities of wealth and education are still serving to give some groups preferential access over others, an issue that President Clinton has said he will emphasize on a "new markets" tour of economically depressed areas this spring.

The issue will also be explored in "Digital Divide: Technology and Our Future," two hour-long television programs scheduled to air on Public Broadcasting Service stations beginning Jan. 28 at 9...