CyberPessimists


 * Cyber- Pessimists**


 * In the Digital Divide**


 * **Global Divide** || **Social Divide** || **Democratic Divide** ||
 * believe that technology increase disparities between the North and South || reiterate the patterns of social stratification and increase of unskilled persons to technological access || feel technology unveils evils of new inequalities of power and wealth and widens, even further, the division between the information rich and poor; internet politics will benefit the elite ||
 * **Global Divide** || **Social Divide** || **Democratic Divide** ||
 * believe that technology increase disparities between the North and South || reiterate the patterns of social stratification and increase of unskilled persons to technological access || feel technology unveils evils of new inequalities of power and wealth and widens, even further, the division between the information rich and poor; internet politics will benefit the elite ||

Cyber-pessimists also believe that digital technology will further inequalities, as countries that are already advanced will continue to advance while poorer countries lagging far behind may fail to catch up in the long term.

See also: democratic divide, cyber-optimists, Cyber-optimists, Cyber-skeptics, and Cyber-pessimists.


 * Works Cited**

Norris, Pippa (2000). Digital Divide: Civic Engagment, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 1-22.