Defining the "Digital Divide" Interaction between humans and computers has greatly increased as we start the twenty-first century. The ability to access computers and therefore the internet has become increasingly important to completely immerse oneself within the economic, political, and social aspects of not just America, but of the planet. However, not everyone has access to this technology. The idea of the "digital divide" refers to the growing gap between the underprivileged members of society, especially the poor, rural, elderly, and a handicapped portion of the population who do not have access to computers or the internet; and therefore the wealthy, middle-class, and young living in urban and suburban areas who have access. The digital divide metaphor became popular within the mid-1990s when the National Telecommunications and knowledge Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce published “Falling through the Net: A Survey of
Humanity Goes Down Humanity means three different things: a species; a behavior, and a global identity. The historical relationship between these different dimensions of humanity has been elegantly discussed by the late Bruce Mazlish in his 2009 book the thought of Humanity during a Global Era and it's important to differentiate between these three aspects of being human as we prepare to satisfy as a worldwide humanitarian movement once more . Humanity as species: The first meaning of humanity describes a specific quite animal that biologists encouragingly call Homo sapiens – or wise human – and which seems distinct from all other animals because of its powers of language, reasoning, imagination, and technology. This biological and evolutionary use of the term has an equivalent meaning as “humankind” and marks us out as a specific body that's different from other forms of animal and vegetative life. The power of the human species is considerable over t