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CNN.com - Why Americans don't vote -- and how that might change - November 7, 2000 - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...fl.dean.voters.02.11.07

CNN.com americans vote

shared by ian august on 30 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • ian august on 30 Jun 11
     
    "nations, like Japan and Germany, where 89 percent of the potential voters go to the polls. In fact, most democracies have about 80 percent voter participation. Of the 153 democracies in the world, the United States ranks near the bottom for voter involvement."
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What does it mean to be a digital native? - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...digital-native-prensky

digital native digital immigrant

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  • As technology filters into every corner of the globe and tech cities spring up in some unlikely places from Bangalore to Tel Aviv, a new gulf is emerging to separate the digitally savvy from the disconnected: Poverty.
  • In India, over two-thirds of the population live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank. But a United Nations report still says that mobile phones are more common than toilets, with nearly half of India's 1.2 billion population armed with a handset.
  • hierarchies created by digital literacy and the class systems that will be shaped by access to digital technologies.
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  • digital outcasts -- people whose supposed problem of access to the world has been resolved."
  • By 2020, Prensky predicts people across the globe will be plugged into the "AORTA," -- Always On RealTime Access -
  • "The presents that we live in, are the futures that our pasts have imagined."
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