What are you going to do today? Perhaps you'll email your friends, watch a DVD or listen to your MP3 player. It's likely that sometime soon you're going to surf the Net. Today, we take new technology for granted, so you may be surprised to learn that 50% of the people in the world have still never even used a telephone! There is a huge gap between those who have access to new technology and those who don't. It is called the'Digital Divide'. The truth is that fewer than 17% of the people in the world can actually use the Internet. To go online, you need a computer, the right software, a phone line, a modem and a subscription to an Internet service provider. These aren't cheap and a lot of people, especially in poor countries, just can't afford them. Then, there's the language barrier. Four-fifths of all websites are in English and many people arand the even read or write to your in the own language, iet alone a foreign language on you're if people can't read it to teach the take new how to use a computer. exists simply because rprised to The technology gap also have still many peopie can help them. They have an old-fashioned who have thinking and cannot imagine don't. It technology will make to their lives h is that Education the key Goverments, together to people and train them and at same educate into time introduce local languages the right the oscription computer usage. When we bridge the digital divide then everyone will have equal opportunities and ese aren't especially the power that technology brings