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2013考?研英语特训?：看阅读记单?词A great? deal of atten?tion is being? paid today? to the so-calle?d digit?al divid?e―the divis?ion of the world? into the info (infor?matio?n) rich and the info poor. And that divid?e does exist? today?. My wife and I lectu?red about? this loomi?ng dange?r twent?y years? ago. What was less visib?le then, howev?er, were the new, posit?ive force?s that work again?st the digit?al divid?e. There? are reaso?ns to be optim?istic?。 　　There? are techn?ologi?cal reaso?ns to hope the digit?al divid?e will narro?w. As the inter?net becom?es more and more comme?rcial?ized, it is in the Inter?net of busin?ess to unive?rsali?ze acces?s-after? all, the more peopl?e onlin?e, the more poten?tial custo?mers there? are. More and more gover?nment?s afrai?d their? count?ries will be left behin?d want to sprea?d Inter?net acces?s. Withi?n the next decad?e or two, one to two billi?on peopl?e on the plane?t will be nette?d toget?her. As a resul?t, I now belie?ve the digit?al divid?e will narro?w rathe?r than widen? in the years? ahead?. And that is very good news becau?se the Inter?net may well be the most power?ful tool for comba?ting world? pover?ty that we’ve ever had。 　　Of cours?e, the use of the Inter?net isn’t the only way to defea?t pover?ty. And the Inter?net is not the only tool we have. But it has enorm?ous poten?tial。 　　To take advan?tage of this tool, some impov?erish?ed count?ries will have to get over their? outda?ted anti-colon?ial preju?dices? with respe?ct to forei?gn inves?tment?. Count?ries that still? think? forei?gn inves?tment? is an invas?ion of their? sover?eignt?y might? well study? the histo?ry of infra?struc?ture in the Unite?d State?s. When the Unite?d State?s built? its indus?trial? infra?struc?ture, it didn’t have the capit?al to do so. And that is why Ameri?ca’s Secon?d Wave infra?struc?ture----- inclu?ding roads?, harbo?rs, highw?ays, ports? and so on----- was built? with forei?gn inves?tment?. The Engli?sh, the Germa?ns, the Dutch? and t