Quotes About Digital divide

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

People go on Snapchat - I don't understand it. It's the first app I felt, 'Oh no, I'm out of touch with burgeoning technology. I'm not 16!'

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

There is no off-roading to solve income inequality for people of color. They must have broadband.

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them they are always consulting Dr Google.

But even now the city's freewheeling virtual world stood in stark contrast to the day-to-day lives of most people, to those of young men, and especially of young women, and above all of children who went to sleep unfed but could see on some small screen people in foreign lands preparing and consuming and even conducting food fights with feasts of such opulence that the very fact of their existence boggled the mind.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

Without a computer and with no other way to access the Internet, she had managed to submit fifty job applications online via her iPhone's tiny touch screen in the past few months. While these applications had generated some interviews, they had not resulted in a single job offer.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Limited Access. Today, 1.7 billion people are unbanked, making it very challenging for them to obtain loans and to operate in the world of internet commerce.

Gigabit Opportunity Zones would enable Americans to become participants in, rather than spectators of, the digital economy. They would be a powerful solution to the digital divide. I hope our elected officials will give the idea serious consideration.

I have a limited knowledge of the Internet, which is pretty clear, I don't even turn anything on other than my phone, when it gets stuck, my kids turn it on.

Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

increasing inequalities might emerge between tech-savvy individuals, who understand and control these technologies, and less knowledgeable individuals, who are passive users of a technology they do not understand.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

I can barely use my iPhone. I can't do Facebook, can't do Twitter, can't do Instagram, none of it.

I'm a bit of a grandma: I don't really understand the Twitter and the Instagram.