文档介绍：考研英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析(七)
2009-11-06    海天教育
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic。
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the es more and mercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access—after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the will ted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the may well be the most powerful tool bating world poverty that we've ever had。
Of course, the use of the isn't the only way to defeat poverty. And the is not the only tool we have. But it has enormous potential。
To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign i