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A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info(informatio
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info(informatio
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2013-05-10
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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 business to universalize access—after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want 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To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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.
It seems that now a country’s economy depends much on______.
选项
A、how well-developed it is electronically
B、whether it is prejudiced against immigrants
C、whether it adopts America’s industrial pattern
D、how much control it has over foreign corporations
答案
A
解析
推断题。文章最后一段指出:你有越多的外资帮助你建设当今被称作基础设施建设的第三次浪潮的电子基础设施,你就越富裕。人们认识到外国资本在建设能够充分发挥因特网作用的能源和通讯基础设施方面是何其的重要。由此我们可推断,当今世界,一国的经济在很大程度上取决于电子业的发展。所以选项A为正确答案。
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