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In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communication
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communication
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2010-02-20
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问题
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a "digital divide." Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such Wandwavingthrough the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters—is just the sort of thing for which the UN’s new fund is intended.
This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottomup development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the Internet, but of mobile phones.
What did the author mean by referring "digital divide." (Line 3, Para. 1)?
选项
A、Digital technology will make the gap between rich world and poor world wider.
B、Digital technology will divide people into rich and poor world.
C、People can be divided digitally.
D、To divide people in digital world is wrong.
答案
A
解析
divide的意思是分离,隔开。digital divide可译成“数字鸿沟”,即数字化使世界的贫富差距越来越大。所以A正确。在没有数字化之前,世界上就存在贫富分化。数字化的出现只是使其差距更大,而不是产生的原因,所以B,C,D错误。
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