Quotes About Digital divide

We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people on.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

Ironically, as a result of his move to the country, Cosell- one of the fathers of the Internet-now has only dial-up access from his home.

Technology is not going to be perceived by different classes of people in the same way.

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

It's not fair that people save and work and pay for phones from whatever funds they have, and other people get them for free.

Basic mobile phones can circumvent lack of broadband access, but only to a certain extent.

I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV.

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge

I don't own a cell phone. I've never turned on a computer in my life.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement.

Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.

Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.