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The Economic Divide

     We live in a material era. Everything is about getting more and more. The more you get the most respectful you can be in the society. It is sad that there are a lot of people that just think in material things and do not care about the intelligence, values and feelings of other people. You get an education in order to obtain a better life, and to position yourself in a privilege position in your community. These privileges are responsible in a big part to the pronounced divide in the world.

     The divisions are spread in every aspect of the life. They are a lot of differences between us like the culture, politics and life styles. In this millennium there is growing up a new divide, called the digital divide. It consists in the division created when one group in a population are in disadvantage in front of the rest of the population, merely because they do not have the resources to have the technology. If the government of any country does not have the economic resources to habilitate it with the infrastructure necessary to acquire the technology it will not have the advantage of that technology and will be left behind by those that can afford it. In a few words I strongly think that the government is the main responsible in the digital divide.

     Jakob Nielsen describes three stages in the digital divide. The first one is economic divide which I already explained earlier. The second one is called the usability divide, which consist when a person have the money to obtain the technology but they did not know how to use it. These persons maybe do not have the opportunity to go to school and receive an education. The last one id the empowerment divide in which the person have the economic resources and the basic knowledge to use technology but they do not know it deeply. The economy is around the other two stages described by Nielsen. He explains them as completely separated subjects but the economy is present in both of them. When a person does not have studies, t must be that this person does not have the economic advantage to finish school.

            The economic divide is present in every area of our lives. Not only for the digital divide but also in the cultural divide. The society is ruled by the economy that it has. If a country is one of the world potency, for sure this country will have the better technology for the citizens and for the defense of their country. For that reason the research in any area of science has been promoted for sciences students. The most important thing is to discover new areas, devices and knowledge in order to be ahead.