Quotes About Digital divide

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

The Internet was supposed to bring people together, but it's created big divisions.

A lack of reliable high-speed Internet access creates an opportunity divide between Central Virginia's rural communities and our suburban areas.

That awkward moment when you see a 10 year old child with a better phone than yours.

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

In his book Average Is Over, economist Tyler Cowen sees a future in which high earners are those who "get" computers and information technology. Low earners, he argues, will be those who don't—the less technologically adept who will be forced to work in jobs attending to the needs and wants of the high earners.

It's the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before they even brush their teeth—is reach for their d-pad.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have one foot in the great digital nowhere.

There are more people now with wireless connections than with flush toilets, according to the United Nations (2013).

You have almost no chance to succeed, even in a meritocracy, if you don't have access to good schools or health insurance, cannot afford nutritious meals, fear for your physical safety, or lack broadband connectivity or devices for doing homework or participating in the economy.

South Central Los Angeles, for example, is a data and media black hole, without local cable programming or links to major data systems. Just as it became a housing-and-jobs ghetto in the postwar period, it is now evolving into an off-net electronic ghetto.

to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?

Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation.