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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.
Considering the following sentences, which one would the author most agree?
选项
A、Digital technology is useless.
B、Digital divide will help poor countries becoming rich.
C、Poor people need more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security.
D、Mobile phones should be promoted firstly.
答案
C
解析
文章的第二段第二句说明了穷国更多关注的是“food,health care and security.”所以选 C。作者分析了数字化在现阶段大多数穷国没有太多好处,但是并没有否定数字技术的作用,所以 A错误。在第一段的最后一句,作者说在给他们电脑和网络等高级设备之前,应该先晋级基础设备。在这里移动电话只是基础设施的一个例子,并不是说一定要先拥有移动电话才能用电脑,所以答案 D错。
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