Survival in a Net based society
Ignorance is bliss & a little knowledge is dangerous! An adage we have heard many a time since we were young and it as true as it was in the stone age. Human society comes with a lot of baggage, our myths, our history, our superstitions, our past. These stay with us and are a factor in shaping our future. Different decades have been known by different names, the jet age, the space age and so on ad infinitum. All these periods in our history have contributed to the development of human society in their own way by making things easier for us, by gathering information for us, by opening up sources of information for us. Unfortunately, this information has been limited to an elitist group of people, scientists, researchers, teachers, who in turn have disseminated this information to the common people, but while doing so they have added thier own baggage to it. Information has been controlled, censored and made 'correct' for the common man, for you and for me. We are told in news shows, in newspapers, in magazines, in classrooms as to w
The internet is giving us an oppurtunity to learn, to know, to understand, to be better human beings. There will be changes in the way we think, the things we consider important, but these will all result in a better world to stay in. There are some who would say that this is an optimistic way of looking at things. The fact of the matter is that they have the right to an opinion, I just hope that they have formed the opinion after a careful perusal of the facts on hand. Human society has faced a dilemna from the beginning of time, human beings resent change, for change jolts one out of set patterns, forces one to face different realities, realities with which we may not be comfortable. Society cannot survive without change, it is change which prevents society from stagnating,, from getting trapped in an endless cycle which can only lead to extinction. Information brings about change, without meaning to, without wanting to. The ability to assimilate information and to then use this information is what separates human beings from
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Approximate Word count = 698
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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