Information Society

After doing the reading my argument on the topic at hand didn’t change. The first argument did a good job in using real data to support its conclusion that in our modern day society people are better informed. The no side of this debate didn’t use concrete data. In turn used a more theoretical approach, which focused more on the idea of being better informed, from this approach the author doesn’t feel that our society is better informed now. I have had my argument for this question set for some time and even though I did the reading I didn’t really get too much out of it. The fact of that mater is that our society is better informed but at the same time the society and especially the younger generations are not being encouraged to be informed. The question itself for this debate is not correct because the amount of resources that we have make it obvious that we can be better informed, but the real question is are we better informed considering the potential that we have and not compared to previous generations which had very few resources in comparison. The abilities of computers and the Internet give the public an amazing resource but very few people use the resources available to their full potential. In the end the potential for people being more informed are very high but the reality is that the public is still very oblivious to many things in the world and in turn is still very uninformed.