Dozens of adults click away at keyboards while kids play online games in a packed computer lab.
Black and white. Young and old. It's a scene of low-tech democracy played out at libraries and city centers as the world tilts online, all the time.
With personal computers averaging $550 and broadband averaging $53 per month, Internet access is out of reach for most low-income families, leaving some residents with public terminals as the only option.
In St. Petersburg, a city with an estimated population approaching 250,000, there are 239 public computers at libraries and city recreation centers, leaving less than one terminal for roughly every 1,000 people.
Is that enough?
Well, no, says the director of the city's libraries.
"I don't think you could ever have enough," said Mary Gaines.
Source: St. Petersburg Times
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