Digital Disadvantage Quotes

You either use the Internet or you are backward.

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.

As the world has changed through globalisation and technology, it has left many feeling left behind.

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

Technology produces a new division of haves and have nots.

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.