Quotes About Digital divide

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime.

In May 2014, the Moon had faster broadband than most of rural Britain.

This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.

Sara is about as tech-savvy as your grandma.

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

universal service and a need to ensure that high-speed Internet connections are available to everyone, wherever they are.

At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.

It saddens me how social media has changed the way we interact with one another.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

People are not more connected, despite the billions in ads from the IT companies. Why call it community? It's just technology. The machines are connected, not the people.

Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.

Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

It won't be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.

I think that integrating information to everyday objects will not only help us to get rid of the digital divide, the gap between these two worlds, but will also help us, in some way, to stay human, to be more connected to our physical world.