Information Competence 1ICT521S2

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Information Competence (ICT521S) 1 Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) UNIT 7 – Protecting Information Introduction Is everything about the Internet uncontroversially beneficial, an unqualified boon to humanity? You know of course, that it is not – at least, not uncontroversially. Since the Internet is a subset of human affairs, maybe even a superset of human affairs, it contains the bad guys as well as the good, the uninformed and incompetent as well as the experts, the jokers as well as the serious. Just as you have to have your wits about you to avoid being deceived or defrauded in real life, so too on the Internet. That is the first part of our discussion. The second part addresses the question of whether the Internet is actually good for us and our brains. Does the huge flood of information and entertainment available on line turn us into a continuous distracted state, with sapped powers of concentration and zero attention span? Do we exchange a real life for a life on - line? There has been furious discussion on this issue, ...