Computers and Information in Society - Good Or Bad, Both Sides of the Debate Book Review
Computers and Information in Society - Good Or Bad, Both Sides of the Debate Book Review
Have you ever considered online voting, online privacy, online gambling, ecommerce taxation by states, or proper filters for children to prevent the viewing of pornography? If you have ever even considered these issues or the debates behind both sides of the arguments, than I sure have a good book to recommend to you. The name of the book is:
"The Information Age - Current Controversy Series," Edited by James D Torr, Greenhaven Press, New York, NY, (2003), pp. 188, ISBN: 0-7377-1186-8.
The current controversy series is awesome,, I've loved every one of the books in the series, without question. In this series information comes from news articles, scientific articles, books, periodicals, position papers, academia, government agencies, and non-profit groups. All the arguments pro-or-con are excellently written and the editors choose the best point and perspectives. By reading this series and several like it, I've been able to expand my mind, and see immediate flaws in debating points while reading the newspapers, listening to talk shows, viewing online videos, or watching the news on TV.
This particular book takes us through the information age revolution from ARPA-net to the present (book written in 2003) and the debate is still the same, and the pluses and minuses are now exaggerated, but completely similar even with FaceBook, Google, Apple personal tech, etc. This book has arguments about dishonesty, identity cloaking under screen names, bad behavior on forums, poor email communication, impatience, and even lack of memory, after all you can look up anything online in seconds why remember anything, and thus, we don't - as one writer puts it.
Then there is the big debate about online communities, people with similar hobbies getting together online - from around the world. Remember the term Glocal; a pun on Global-but-Local, well there is a big debate on whether that is actually good or not. And there are several debates about whether the Internet will foster Democracy or cause it to crumble. With examples from Tiananmen Square, to smart mobs, to Palestine, to South Africa. There are debates which talk about censorship issues, and how the Internet will foster freedom of information or cause censorship, which is very interesting in light of the recent WikiLeaks case.
The book contemplates online advertising, competing media, ecommerce future, cyber warfare, hacking, computer viruses, online identity theft, etc - and there are two sides to every single issue involved in this book. There are dozens of pages attributed to innovation and how the Internet plays a big part in all that, and/or how it hurts innovation - all these articles and debates are fascinating and many quite realistic and relevant as well. Oh, and one very interesting section discusses productivity, the Internet causes people at work to be more productive, but also causes them to play online costing billions in productivity each year.
Boy, are you going to love this book and the debates within.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it's hard to write 20,000 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/ - Note: All of Lance Winslow's articles are written by him, not by Automated Software, any Computer Program, or Artificially Intelligent Software. None of his articles are outsourced, PLR Content or written by ghost writers.
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