Technology is making lives better for everyone in many ways, but it is also responsible for worsening existing inequalities, for example, between rich and poor, men and women, and rural and urban people. In a 2020 UN report, relentless, exponential technological progress of our times has been identified as one of the four critical factors in widening the economic inequality in recent decades and in future, especially in developed countries. Now, COVID-19 has ruthlessly laid bare the uncomfortable reality of technology-induced inequality in developing countries like Bangladesh as well. Education during the pandemic is a disquieting case in point.
Technology is making lives better for everyone in many ways, but it is also responsible for worsening existing inequalities, for example, between rich and poor, men and women, and rural and urban people. In a 2020 UN report, relentless, exponential technological progress of our times has been identified as one of the four critical factors in widening the economic inequality in recent decades and in future, especially in developed countries. Now, COVID-19 has ruthlessly laid bare the uncomfortable reality of technology-induced inequality in developing countries like Bangladesh as well. Education during the pandemic is a disquieting case in point.
