首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide the division of the world into the info (informati
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide the division of the world into the info (informati
admin
2010-01-26
69
问题
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide the division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic.
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of the business to universalize access after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more government, afraid their countries will be left behind, wants to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that we’ve ever had.
Of course, the use of the Internet isn’t the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has enormous potential.
To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of infrastructure (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn’t have the capital to do so. And that is why America’s Second Wave infrastructure including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on were built with foreign investment. The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain’s former colony. They financed them. Immigrant Americans built them. Guess who owns them now? The Americans. I believe the same thing would be true in places like Brazil or anywhere else for that matter. The more foreign capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the better off you’re going to be. That doesn’t mean lying down and becoming fooled, or letting foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet.
According to the author, nowadays a country’s economy depends much on ______.
选项
答案
electronic development/how well-developed it is electronically
解析
见文章第4段,目前的基础结构以电子业发展为主导。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/50dK777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Publicitycancoverlargenumbersofaudiencesinashorttimeanditscostsarelowerthan______.Whatisthereasonforthef
Largecompaniesneedawaytoreachthesavingsofthepublicatlarge.Thesameproblem,onasmaller(36)______,facespractic
CholesterolandHeartDiseaseDoyouknowyourcholesterollevel?Manypeopledon’t.Ahighlevelofcholesterolinthebloo
A、Hehasagoodsenseofdirection.B、Heownsa"smart"car.C、Hedoesn’tknowhowtodrive.D、Hedoesn’tknowthewaytothewo
Forsomeeducators,thereisnothingwrongwithfunandgames.AgroupcalledtheEducationArcaderecentlyhelda(36)______in
Heartdiseasetakesupabout______ofthein-flightmedicalemergenciesonUSflights.Accordingtothepassage,whydoesdeep
A、Massachusetts.B、Texas.C、California.D、Connecticut.CWhichstatetooktheleadinguardinginaccurateenvironmentalclaims?
A、He’stryingtobuyausedcar.B、He’stryingtopassadrivingtest.C、He’stryingtohavehiscarrepaired.D、He’stryingto
A、Maryisworthyoftheprize.B、Maryhasgrantedtheprize.C、Maryfailsinthespeechcontest.D、Themandoesn’tthinkMaryde
随机试题
呼气性呼吸困难的病因是
在某病的队列研究中,最开始选择的队列应为
针刺环跳时宜选
根据《国务院关于取消第二批行政审批项目和改变一批行政审批项目管理方式》(国发[2003]5号),取得建造师注册证书的人员是否担任工程项目施工的项目经理,由()决定。
流程银行的特征不包括()。
某生产电器的企业为增值税小规模纳税人,2015年4月发生下列业务:(1)外购材料一批用于生产电器,取得增值税专用发票,注明价款8000元,增值税1360元;外购一台生产设备,取得增值税专用发票,注明价款20000元,增值税3400元;(2)销售自产的A
下图为某城市房价等值线图。图中房价最可能相等的地方是()。
设有学生表student(学号,姓名,性别,出生日期,院系)、课程表course(课程号,课程名,学时)和选课表score(学号,课程号,成绩),查询所修课程成绩都大于等于85分的学生的学号和姓名,正确的命令是
FlorenceNightingalewasfromanoblefamily.
Thehumanfaceisaremarkablepieceofwork.Theastonishingvarietyoffacialfeatureshelpspeople【C1】______eachotherandis
最新回复
(
0
)