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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 (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
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2013-03-08
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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To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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.
Governments attach importance to the Internet because it______.
选项
A、offers economic potentials
B、can bring foreign funds
C、can soon wipe out world poverty
D、connects people all over the world
答案
A
解析
细节题。第二段第二句告诉我们:随着因特网越来越商业化,普及因特网也就成了商家的利益所在。因为上网的人越多,潜在的顾客也就越多。接着第三句说:因担心自己的国家落后于别的国家,越来越多的政府希望人们上网。第二段最后指出:因特网很有可能是我们消除贫穷的最强大的工具。接着第三段又讲到:因特网具有巨大的经济潜能。所以,选项[A]为正确答案:政府重视因特网是因为因特网提供了经济潜力。
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