The OTHER Digital Divide

I'm sick of everyone talking about the digital divide between the haves and have nots as if as soon as you give kids laptops they stop starving/getting malaria/being killed on a grand scale. The real digital divide is between people. With everyone spending more and more time inside their own networks, where's the understanding going to come from? Where's the love? Just because we all watch the same YouTube videos or LOLCats doesn't mean that we're going to make the world a better place. What's the point of connectivity... if there's no connection. Someone should create an app that gets kids interested in having digital pen pals. BTW: Blogger may soon be using OpenID which I think is a great move. Finally, we will be free of the GOOG! (Except for our blog hosting, e-mail, search, RSS reader, internet connection....)