IGNORING THE BLACK SPOTS
We live in a bubble where we feel that everyone has access to the Internet and it’s more of a necessity now, rather than a luxury. Interestingly, a recent report shows that more than sixty percent of the world doesn’t have access to the Internet. Moreover, there are still twenty percent of the people in the United States who have never had Internet connection at home. This makes me want to raise the question, why are we ignoring the black spots?
I believe in always looking at the brighter side or seeing the glass half full, however when such a significant thing in our live now, like the internet is being deprived from more than half of the world population I feel that we are living a lot more on the pride of what we have achieved rather than taking into account this serious issue of inequality in the access to it. On reading about the Native Americans in “Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain” it made me wonder that even though this section of the society lived on the American soil, a country, which is perceived to be a country that is completely revolutionized by technology, they were still sections deprived the access to Internet. This showed that technology was kept from various sections of the society, which made the richer sections have an upper hand over the people who were deprived access from it. Also, there is not only an inequality in terms of access but also the speed and functionality in the digital divide worldwide. These black spots are the regions that are still unaware of many of the benefits of having technology, for instance something so basic like an email, which is now used in almost all spheres, as a means for communication is still a concept alien to them. Hence, there is a need to educate these areas about the new technology and its benefits in today’s world. Moreover, steps need to be taken to make usage of technology possible in every corner of the world. Therefore, by reducing this racial and economic divide there will no longer be any black spots and more than half of the world that is currently deprived access to technology will be brought up to speed with the first world countries.
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