The Information Age

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Joe the mailman will no longer be coming to your door. You won't have to go pick up your newspaper in the bushes at 6:00am anymore. Libraries will be a thing of the past. Why is this all happening? Welcome to the information age.
"You've got mail!" is the sound most people are listening to. No more licking stamps, just click on the "send" icon, and express delivery service will take on a whole new meaning.
The future is here. Now, a mouse is better known as a computer device rather than a rodent. Surfing is being done over the Internet instead of at the beach. Games are no longer bought at toy stores, but are downloaded into our computers. All of this new technology sounds fascinating, but will it benefit more than it will hurt?
Think about my opening sentence, catchy right? Well, think about it again. What is going to happen to good 'ole Joe? And those nice librarians, what about them? Will they be out of a job? Will they be forced to operate computers that are foreign to them? How do we as a society adjust to technological change?
The answer lies in society's ability to effectively measure the costs and benefits of technological change.
The rapid growth of technology brings with it a massive amount of hope, but also despair. Kids are growing up with computers. They are learning more and faster than other generations could. This is wonderful, right? Maybe not. Will computers deplete the social skills kids need to mature? Will being a member of
America OnLine rather than a youth group prove to be helpful or the opposite?
Our generation will need to lead this technological revolution in the right direction. We need to offset the obstacles in our path. We need to make sure the flow of change is going to be a positive one. The answer lies in our hands.
We need to utilize the technology given to us, and make sure it is used in a positive sense. We need to take the Internet and the World Wide Web and rid it of its evils. We need to make sure terrorist secrets and bomb recipes are not being exchanged, and make sure educational tools are. We need to make the
Internet a source to help find jobs, rather than a catalyst to replace them.
These are the hardships we must get rid of.
So what are we going to do about it? We need to educate everyone young and old, and make computer illiteracy a thing of the past.

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