Quotes About Digital divide

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

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.

Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.

I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.

Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

I love a web series. But to me, it does the girl in Detroit a disservice who just watches television. It does a disservice to the girl on the south side of Chicago who doesn't go online.

Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

More people in our world, in other words, have mobile phones than toothbrushes (which perhaps speaks as much about dental hygiene as 'pervasive computing').

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

It's a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn't have to talk to grownups.

In 2000, approximately 15 percent of the world's population was connected to the Internet.51 Today, more than half the world is online, and more people are estimated to have mobile phones than access to running water.

When it comes to fiber connections, the United States is behind Sweden, Estonia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, and most other developed countries, putting us twenty-eighth worldwide in terms of speed of Internet access and twenty-third in terms of cost.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

All Americans must have access to the Internet in today's digital world, and the market needs competition to drive affordable prices.

The FCC has been hard at work doing what we can to help close the digital divide.

I feel the wall that divides films screened online and in the cinema is becoming less and less significant.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

I am not a tech savvy person at all.

As the world has changed through globalisation and technology, it has left many feeling left behind.