Digital Divide

Life seems very unfair sometimes. There are some who have excessive resources at their disposal and there are some who hardly have anything. Digital divide pertains to that divide which involves some people having a lot of access to digital and information technology against those who hardly have an access or no access at all. Those who fall in the former category, would definitely be able to have a look at the articles below.
  • The Digital Divide
    When it comes to technology, not everyone has the same access. This can lead to serious gaps in earnings, education, and many other societal inequities.
  • Urban Sprawl: Causes and Effects
    Increase in population and changes in income of an average American family, has led to the increase in urban sprawls. Some view it as an opportunity to lead a better life in larger homes, away from the congested city life. However, for some, sprawls are a burden on the economy and environment of the country.
  • Urban Sprawl and Development
    Major cities around the world are facing one of the biggest human influxes in the history of human civilization. Urban sprawl development is an important feature and a bigger problem for the contemporary city life.
  • Urban vs. Rural Living
    What are the advantages of a rural living? Is it anytime better to inhabit urban parts of the world? Let us study urban and rural living comparatively in this article on urban vs. rural living.
  • Second Life
    Second life is a virtual world that allows Internet users to explore a virtual arena and interact with fellow virtual citizens. Learn more about this fascinating software and how people use it.
  • Urban Myths
    Pets turning into sewer prowling, giant-sized monsters. Large organizations promoting and encouraging occultism through secret messages conveyed in their product labels. Popular cereals having secret toxic properties in them. All these are but examples of urban myths - tales that are being circulated by either e-mails or by word of mouth.
  • Our Society: Technology and Instant Gratification
    How technology has spoiled us rotten, and how patience can improve your quality of life.
  • The Moral-Entertainment Divide
    The entertainment and moral dilemma divide in popular culture has slowly diminished in some mediums but only grown in others.
  • A Book Lover's Neo-Luddite Lament in the Technological Age
    With the advent of newer and faster computer technology every day, are we losing touch with the "real world?"
  • Computer Illiterates - The New Lepers
    Those who are marginally to completely inept at operating computers have been afforded the same reputation as the guy with the tape on his glasses and high water pants.
  • Community Lost
    We are slowly losing the sense of community that was once a trademark of our society.
  • Information Communication Technologies and Society
    Once again human has been successful to develop virtual world and no doubts we are greatly fascinated by its effects. Americans spends nearly 14 hours of a day on Internet. Around 233 countries surf WWW. There are almost 50,562,886 active domains are attractive crowd to surf.
  • Communication Overload
    Today's digital world has provided endless means of communication tools. Barriers of distance, speed and time no longer hold importance, but is today's technology itself creating overload of communication? Will a personal one-to-one talk soon become a myth that happens once in a while? Find out....
  • Digital Divide
    The Internet can provide a surfeit of information that can enrich lives, yes, but to benefit, one needs to know how to sift through this vast database of knowledge and find exactly what is needed.
  • The Need for a Guru in Today's Day and Age!
    Probably the most used phrase in the universe today would be, 'It's easier said than done'; in a world that thrives on advice of some sort, it is no wonder that each one of us loves to be that someone who can lend a piece of something that costs practically nothing...advice!
  • Cyber Culture: One Look
    Cyber culture is the culture that emerges from the use of computers for communication and entertainment and business.
  • The Question of Responsibility
    I wonder if there is anything like taking responsibility left anymore. Nearly everything these days seems to have such a fine, valid explanation that there just doesn't seem to be any one in particular left around to carry the blame.
  • Patriotism: Is it Dead?
    I'd like to think that we live our lives well. I'd really like to think so! But looking at the umpteen number of deaths taking place, I wish we would 'live', because all these incidents only make me this that we are merely existing!
  • Generation Gap
    There are two things definite about human life; three actually; taxes, problems, and relatives!!
  • Internet Life: Understanding Extension
    "The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life" quoted Andrew Brown. This article describes a drop of water out of sea of an Information Technology. This is to understand little about Portal - Vortal and Enterprise solutions.