Please address the folllowing questions--Why should we care about the individuals who don't acquire digital literacy?
Why can't we just continue policies of Social Darwinism in cyberspace?
What are the collective consequences of mistakes made?
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People should care about the advances in todays technology. A lot of older people feel that its too much to trty and keep up with. Like the old saying goes..."you can't teach an old dog new tricks." Which is true but why shy away from new technology when it just makes certain things way easier.
This is the digital age. This is the direction that the world is heading and people will get left behind unless they adapt but many individuals will unfortunately probably never see a computer. Many organizations and good hearted people are however trying to take on this challenge providing inexpensive computers to the less fortunate but we can only do so much.
The digital age isn't coming, it is here! The Internet has provided a great avenue for information, art, and entertainment. Those that are struggling in their efforts to learn this new form of communication are at the risk of becoming the new outcasts of society.
Cyberspace is quikly evolving into a culture all on its own, crossing the many boundaries of our physical world. The anonimity of cyberspace can give the physically challenged the opportunity to virtually be un-incumbered, leaving the trappings of biology and the "natural selection" of Darwinism behind.
The consequences of such a strong dependency on technology and its shortcomings have been made evident on many occassions, an example of this is the comprimise of personal information on a large scale through the compromise of government databases.
I think everyone should have the opportunity to learn digital language. Since the world is changing we should be exposed to all of the new technology so that we can level the playing feild as far as education and jobs are concerned. The mistakes made i think are just the way we allow our personal information to be manipulated and used in a negative manner.
I feel that everyone should be on the same level, but we all know that this is not possible. We have the older generation(some) that knows nothing about computers, then you have some that just can't stay off them. Some older people don't want to be bothered with computers, so it's kind of hard. Or, it just might be they can't see well, or their coordination is just off. But at the same time you have the younger generation that also have never touched a computer due to their economic situation. So what can you really do?
For those who dont care about the higher knowledge must suffer the consequences. It is the age of 1's and 0's. To not want to keep up and at least learn the basics is a risky chance of not being marketable. How many A-track audio technicians can you find today. besides just like the saying goes " LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES..... WELL YOU KNOW THE REST.
In my opinion no formal action should be taken to show "care" towards individuals with limited digital literacy. Most people who now fall into this category are either elderly people with no use of the computer, younger children with a limited maturity level and what not. However, there is that sliver, that minority of middle aged adults with an extremely low level of computer literacy, and digital literacy. Therein lies the true problem to a situation such as this.
Have we as a society begun to see the fruit of a problem and decided to ignore the root and attack the fruit? For instance, most adults in their mid to late fourty's who are "digitally illiterate" are also "computer illiterate". Now the lack of digital literacy is the fruit, but they have gained no concept of digital literacy, due to their lack of computer literacy.
Yet, there are those few in this category that have somehow managed to figure out how to type an internet address into the address bar and stumbled into an online community and are continual fumbling their way through the digital world using a language they do not understand. These people are what some tech savvy people would call either newbies or just flat out idiots. I think it is first a lack of the ability to learn and adapt, secondly it is an education issue, and third is experience. Darwinism is irrelevant in cyberspace, evolution does not take place, only adaptation. Either you adapt or you do not. Either you can utilize the power and pleasures of the internet, or you can not.
The ones who get left behind is the ones that dont want to advance to the high level of technology. Some people have to just face the facts that the world is changing everyday. Either get with the program or stay lost in the game.
My wife's grandparents are very up to date in the digital age and have a very easy understanding of the digital world. They own a very nice computer and a easy share kodak digital camera. Her grandpa once owned a commodore 64, I justed wanted to give an example of how long he has been working with computers. When we were visiting he copied a CD program that I needed. My wife grandfather is 74 years old and he has been knowing his way around computers and there programs for years.
"The digital age isn't coming, it is here! The Internet has provided a great avenue for information, art, and entertainment. Those that are struggling in their efforts to learn this new form of communication are at the risk of becoming the new outcasts of society.
Cyberspace is quickly evolving into a culture all on its own, crossing the many boundaries of our physical world. The anonymity of cyberspace can give the physically challenged the opportunity to virtually be un-incumbered, leaving the trappings of biology and the "natural selection" of Darwinism behind.
The consequences of such a strong dependency on technology and its shortcomings have been made evident on many occasions, an example of this is the compromise of personal information on a large scale through the compromise of government databases." Stated Ben G.
I think the poeple who get left behind are the people that don't apply themselves according to workings of the world, meaning the digital world. There are plenty of dead end jobs out there, and there is one for you if you choose to be left behind in the dark ages.
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