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Date Posted: 18:49:14 10/08/02 Tue
Author: Sean McCormick
Subject: Re: The Internet
In reply to: Barbara 's message, "The Internet" on 06:16:13 11/06/01 Tue

I took the MSc Econ In Information and Library Studies, which I think you would find very interesting (especially the deabate, for which I wrote an essay, contrasting the 'Information Rich with the Information Poor'). My personal conclusion, I hope it helps to answer your question - in part at least - is this: Yes, the internet is a powerful tool of information storage, retrieval, and communication; but what is the information being stored, retrieved and communicated? If the ability to do good is enhanced immeasurably by this 'astonishing' tool, so, also, is the power to do harm. Ultimately, the place where change for good takes occurs is in the human heart, the same as it always has been. As I commented in one of my essays, man invents axe = tool; man uses axe to chop down tree = useful tool; man uses axe to wrap roound head of other man = misuse of tool. Is the internet really so different? The battlefield may have changed (or, perhaps, more appropriately, been 'enhanced'), but the main tenets of the war remain the same!
be good
Sean
p.s. - one of the first things our lecturers did was to tell us to go to a workstation, type 'sex'in a search engine, and just watch those many millions of hits come rolling in - quite fascinating. They 'pop-up' everywhere!

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