A Conversation with Tony Mobley, Host, on the digital divide in 2026
Half the country is online. The other half is still waiting to be let in.
Tony Mobley built this show as a place to ask hard questions in plain language, and this week he turns that question on the show itself. The subject is the digital divide in 2026, a gap that shapes who can work, learn, bank and be seen. There is no separate guest chair this time. Tony sits down as host and subject together, to explain why a conversation like this needs to exist at all.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 8:00 – 9:00 PM ET Live at conversationswithtonymobley.com
Who Is Tony Mobley
Tony Mobley hosts Conversations with Tony Mobley, and this week he holds both ends of the conversation. A host who steps forward to answer his own question, rather than pose it to someone else, is making a statement about how much the subject matters to him personally.
There is no guest biography to offer this week, because there is no separate guest. The story here is the show itself, and the host who built it.
Why This Conversation, and Why Now
In 2026 a stable connection, a working device and basic digital skill still decide who can apply for a job, keep up with a class or reach a doctor without leaving home. That divide touches devices and affordability, literacy and safety, work and health, and it rarely gets discussed as one connected problem rather than several separate ones.
A show that exists to widen access to conversation has a direct stake in a subject about who gets left out of access altogether. Explaining why Conversations with Tony Mobley exists and examining the digital divide turn out to be the same argument, seen from two directions.
What We Expect to Explore
Access and Affordability
- What devices, hardware and connectivity gaps still shut people out
- How affordable broadband and community wifi change daily options
- Where the cost of getting online falls hardest
Skills, Safety and Everyday Literacy
- What basic digital literacy actually requires in 2026
- How people protect themselves once they are online
- Where lifelong learning fits alongside formal education
Work, Health and Belonging
- How access to technology shapes remote work and job opportunity
- What digital access means for telehealth and everyday wellbeing
- How communities support people at risk of being left behind
Policy and What Comes Next
- What role policy and public private partnership can play
- How new technology and AI could narrow or widen the gap
- What it would take for technology to lift everyone, not just some
Who This Conversation Is For
This conversation is for anyone who has felt technology move faster than their ability to keep up with it, and for anyone who works, teaches or cares for people navigating that gap. It is also for listeners who simply want to understand why this show was built in the first place.
Tony welcomes questions from the live chat during the broadcast. Send in what you want explored, and the conversation will make room for it.
Join the Conversation
The show airs live on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, from 8:00 to 9:00 PM ET, here at conversationswithtonymobley.com. Come with your own experience of the digital divide, whatever shape it takes for you, and bring your questions for the live chat. This is a conversation built to include the people it is about.