At 02:12 PM 18/04/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >The great unwashed don't have the same perspective re the risks as I do >and gaily assume that the digital universe is as certain as the physical >world. Is that their fault? Has anybody really explained these things to >them? Would they believe the message? Considering what many people >believe about the real world, I somehow doubt it.
I would say that not only the general public, but also the government and commerce humans you mention. They are made up of humans who are sold a sometimes rotten bill of goods in order for the seller to make a buck. All we have to do is look at the current debacleS in Qld to see that in play. In a virtual world, everything is fakeable, or as the older aphorism said, on the internet, no one needs to know you're a dog. Seems to be something that needs to be added to school curricula in the space of 'critical thinking in a digital age'. It's a major shift in world view. What I thought was ironic in the article was the point that instead of someone stealing his work to publish under a different name, it was the reverse. Probably someone has done a logic diagram of the various permutations of these components for a dissertation somewhere. Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] blog: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/ business: http://www.janwhitaker.com Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. ~Madeline L'Engle, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
