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Knowledge and technology — the key question?
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Technology spreads knowledge, but does it tend to NARROW or WIDEN inequalities in access to it?
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How can technology NARROW the knowledge gap?
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Cheap devices carry the same encyclopedias, courses and lectures to billions at almost no cost.
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How can technology WIDEN the knowledge gap?
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No device, signal or money shuts people out (the digital divide), and paywalls and algorithms controlled by the powerful decide what you see.
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The digital divide?
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The gap between those with and without technology access — a device and signal you can afford, not just the internet existing somewhere.
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How does technology relate to Foucault?
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It's the newest form of power/knowledge — whoever owns the platform shapes what counts as knowledge for its users.
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Does the gadget decide whether the gap narrows?
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No — who controls the technology, and on what terms, decides; access, not the device, is what matters.
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The topic's arc in one line?
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Knowledge & power → access → whose ways of knowing count → technology as the engine that can narrow or widen the gap.
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What lifts a Section B answer to the top band?
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Arguing a claim, testing it against the strongest objection, weighing them, and reaching a reasoned conclusion — not describing.
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