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
47
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To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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.
Why would governments attach importance to the Internet?
选项
答案
Because it offers economic potential.
解析
见文章第2段,政府是从经济利益考虑,唯恐落后。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/r0dK777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Thepoor.B、Theunemployed.C、Theold.D、Theyoung.DGenerallyspeaking,whoarethemostpartthatsufferfromtakingdrugs?
Localgovernmentispoliticaladministrationofthesmallestsubdivisionsofacountry’sterritoryandpopulation.Althoughther
A、Theybumpedintoeachotheroveraswimmingpool.B、Theyavoidedeachotherbyturningindifferentdirections.C、Theynarrowl
A、TheyshouldbestrictwiththeirchildrenB、TheyshouldnotsetlimitsfortheirchildrenC、Theyshouldgivemorepowertothe
A、Manyofherteacherslikedherverymuch.B、Shewasatherbestasatypist.C、Shehadalreadymadelotsofmoney.D、Shewasv
A、In1177.B、In1315.C、Inthe16thcentury.D、Inthe17thcentury.AWhenwasBelfastfounded?
Bynow,howtheimmunesystemisaffectedbystresshasbeenwelldocumented.Inonestudy【B1】newlywedcouples,forexample,tho
A、Automobilesafety.B、Increasingfuelefficiency.C、California’spollutionlaws.D、Electric-poweredcars.DWhatisthepassage
TheOlympictorchstartsitsjourneyaroundtheworldfromtheopeningceremonyofOlympicGames.AfterrunningaroundtheOlym
A、Itisquiteunexpected.B、Shehasalreadygotthenews.C、Shehasconfidenceintheman.D、Itisnotexcitingtolearnabouti
随机试题
DearMr.Suzuki,ThegoodswereceivedonJuly15werefoundnottomatchourorder.ThegoodsweorderedwereItemNo.2345
下列哪种物质缺乏可引起血液丙酮酸含量升高
小儿结核病的流行病学说法正确的是()
不同地区的平均预期寿命可以互相比较,是由于平均预期寿命不同地区的总和生育率可以互相比较,是由于总和生育率
挖孔桩基础挖孔时,孔内应经常检查有害气体浓度,当二氧化碳浓度超过0.3%、其他有害气体超过允许浓度或()时,均应设置通风设备。
《绿色施工导则》所倡导的“四节一环保”的内容中不包括()。
旨在使市场影响最小化的同时提供一个平均执行价格的算法交易策略是()。
英国人认为应该为孩子日后的独立生活负责,现实原则是第一位的,而亲情是第二位的。父母应对孩子长大成人后的行为负责,如果孩子日后不能像其他人一样适应社会,对社会有所贡献,作为父母就没能尽到教育的职责,这样的父母是不称职的,他们应该感到愧疚,向社会检讨。通过这段
Whyisitusefultocarryenough25-centcoinswithyou?Thispassageismostprobablytakenfrom______.
VALIUMInthe1960s,Valiumwaslaunchedaroundtheworldasthenewmiraclepill.Itwasprescribedfordozensofailments,
最新回复
(
0
)