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Implications of the digital age: Social and Ethical Issues
- The threat to personal privacy posed by large databases and computer networks.
- The hazards of high-tech crime and the difficulty of keeping data secure.
- The difficulty of defining and protecting intellectual property in an all-digital age.
- The threat of Automation and the dehumanization of work .
> For example, building cars is nearly completely done by machines now.
- The abuse of information as a tool of political and economic power.
- The emergence of bio-digital technology.
> Replacing lost limbs, technology-made medicine, micro-chipping animals, integrating chips into the
human brain to increase performance, surgery with technological tools and x-rays.
- The dangers of dependence on complex technology.
> A black out or virus could destroy a whole social system if a society is dependent on that
technology
*Computers have evolved at an incredible pace since Charles Babbage's plan for an Analytical Engine.
*Computers today come in all shapes and sizes, with specific types being well-suited for particular jobs.
*Connecting to a network enhances the value and power of a computer
- Internet
- WWW
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