week four

level1

Submarine cables are internet cables that run across the ocean floor. The article talks about how these cables only help the people that can connect to them. The problem though is that the people not connected to these cables are being separated more and more from the digital world as time moves by. With the digital world becoming more important to the modern man this is extremely detrimental. The people that are not connected by these cables are usually small rural communities. They try to get the school connected but as the article pointed out big companies only give the minimum cable required and students can not access the internet at home to do their homework or school assignments. The problem the companies say to blame for this is lack of money. Just to get the small community connected would cost a million dollars they said. This is just for the buildings and support they would need.

level 2

The ways to solve this is from the smaller companies. As pointed out small companies are trying to bridge this gap. It is better for these companies to do this job than to hope for one of the big companies like AT&T to show up one day. With this literal divide made by the wires, it is best to have some smaller companies to help out. With the smaller companies, they can show people how the internet can help them out. A place that allows public access to the internet for everyone that walks through the door would probably be most realistic. Because these communities have not had the internet before they would think they do not need it. A way to deal with this would be to put it in schools and have it available for public use to slowly change their minds.