New technologies often inspire utopian hopes: the bicycle will allow women and men to travel everywhere, unfettered; telephones will erase distance and do away with drudgery. More recently, computers and now digital resources promise to open the world's libraries to all, and to make all knowledge available to everyone to learn with. And yet we are all aware of the digital divide-the line between the 60% of CUNY honors college students who did not own computers before the school gave them one, and those born with a silver mouse in their hands. The digital divide flickers through the articles in this issue on Teaching Digital Media, most obviously in the contrast between the world of elite …