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Ethical Issues in the Information Age, 2002.
A discussion on the ethical issues and problems created by the explosion in the rate of acquisition of new knowledge and the development of new technologies that process information with unprecedented ease and rapidity.
4,340 words (approx. 17.4 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 114.95
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The following paper examines the ethical issues that relate to privacy, free speech, and protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) with regards to the present era. The writer examines how all knowledge depends to a large extent on prior knowledge. The issue of innovators having the right to exclusive benefit from his innovation or creation [Intellectual Property] does seem to exist in principle, however this paper examines the strong need to properly define and delimit those rights. Similarly this paper examines the equally strong ethical case for such delimitation to protect people?s right to privacy and free speech, which are sometimes at variance with one another. As the world is rapidly shrinking due to the communication revolution, new universally accepted laws are required to deal with these questions.
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"The problem raised by immense expansion of knowledge and the ways to process them, can only be solved through a thorough public debate and broad decisions on the ethical foundations on which the legislation is sought o be based. In view of the global implications of most of these laws, international agreements is also necessary on general principles on which the laws should be founded. Attention has also to be directed to attending to the basic problems of the allocation and distribution of resources in more appropriate ways than at present. This cannot be achieved by reliance on the operation of ?free market? forces alone. There is another problem. The present laws regarding IPR favor the industrialized nations. Multi national corporations often indulge in unethical, exploitative practices. On the other hand, to identify legally constituted entities and bona fide community representatives with whom to deal as well as to determine the appropriate form and distribution of benefits may be difficult if Community Intellectual Rights are pursued."
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Ethics in the Information Age, 2002.
A look at ethics of information privacy verses the freedom of information.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper will discuss the ethics standpoint of information selling, and privacy issues in business relations. By understanding how companies can tend to reveal a client's privacy, we can learn how this presents ethical questions on this practice.
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The ?Information Age? Exhibit.
This paper reviews the ?Information Age? exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 29.95
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This paper reports that the "Information Age" exhibit has on display hundreds of items spanning the 150-year length of the "Information Age". The author points out that, from the telegraph to the portable computer and digital CD ROM, these devices have helped shape the world around us and have given us access to a whole new way of life. The paper states that the exhibit contains additional facts, including the fact that the first computers were sold as kits for which consumers had to make their own case because many marketers believed the personal computer was not a salable product.
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"In addition to the telegraph, a basic cable, called the Atlantic cable of 1858, is also on display. Being to forefather to the coaxial cable that would later transform information across the globe, this cable was not well designed, and only stayed operable for a few days. However, later cables would spread the information world across the ocean for the first time, promoting intercontinental communications. In addition, the "Information Age" exhibit includes a telephone display, showing the history of the telephone as the world knows it today. Beginning with Alexander Graham Bell?s early telephone equipment, including pictures of his early experimental phones, and spanning to the commercial phone of 1877 and the first telephones with a dial, this display shows the evolution of both the phone its self, and the equipment created to handle the calls."
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Disconnected: Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age, 2001.
An examination of "Disconnected: Have and Have-Nots in the Information Age" by William Wresch.
1,614 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper is about growing gaps in information technology and how information and communications are increasingly necessary. Lack of knowledge leads to poorer outcomes and a lesser place in social networks. Goes on to discuss possible solutions.
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"In Disconnected: Have and Have-nots in the Information Age, Wresch argues that while we live in an ?information age?, information is still unavailable to many. He sees unequal distribution of information causing the gap between the rich and the poor to grow, since oftentimes knowledge (in the form of information) is the means to obtain power and wealth. He sees tyrannical control of information and rejectionists? refusal to access available information as also leading to further inequality and hate, and he points out that with increased information comes the threat of increased information-based crimes. Aside from these worries about information?s access are his findings on information processing. Wresch points out that those who don?t have adequate education can?t make use of the information available to them; as well, psychologically, educated people can ignore information; finally, occasionally there is just so much information out there that sorting through it becomes a Herculean task and so wrong conclusions are reached as some information is ignored and some given more emphasis ? this overabundance of information is referred to as ?noise?, which can metaphorically ?hypnotize or deafen? (Wresch, 75). Information itself can also be skewed and one-sided, or too meagre. Wresch specifically points to television, movies, newspapers, radio, and even books as more unavailable and one-sided in less developed countries than in developed countries. Additionally, he sees networking and connections with people as having an effect on one?s outcomes; the rich thus have an advantage over the poor, who have fewer connections. Finally, organizations and professionals could also benefit from increased communication and sharing of information."
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Living in the Information Age, 2001.
A look at the positive and the negative effects of the new information age on society.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 31.95
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A look at the technological changes in the past century and the positive and negative effects of such advancement. The author looks at the benefits of advanced communication and information and contrasts this to the disadvantages that this may bring on the morals, beliefs and values of society.
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"When I was a little girl, I read in a popular magazine in Europe that by year 2000 we would be able to just pick up the phone and directly dial any country in the world. I remember hardly believing it, since at the time I couldn't even call my aunt in a neighboring town without the operator's assistance. When my sister went off to college, mom had to send her a telegram with a date and time for her to go to the central post office to receive our long-distance phone call.Less than twenty years later, that lifestyle is outdated. We have gone far beyond just being able to direct dial any country in the world. Going a day without cellular phones, fax machines, computers, and satellites would pose a great challenge. With the Internet, we have instant access to information, and that commodity is becoming a necessity as well. From research data to recipes, from movie schedules to news, from fiction to shopping, the Internet is moving in."
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Privacy in the Information Age, 2004.
Discusses the concept of privacy in today's technological world.
834 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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In today's information age, a combination of satellite and computer technology creates a large number of privacy problems, rather than providing the security they are promoted for. The paper shows that the biggest privacy problems are experienced in terms of public privacy and privacy in terms of the Internet. In the information age ,the right "to be alone" has to be respected in terms of computer technology, as well. The paper discusses, specifically, two problems arising from the information age: Internet privacy and electronic surveillance.
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"Further surveillance occurs in the workplace, where e-mail could be intercepted, and Internet use could be monitored. As far as this is in the interest of the workplace paradigm, the employers are within their rights. Surveillance in the workplace could also be conducted by means of electronic cameras and telephone apparatus. Often this is done without employee awareness, and this is unacceptable. Employees should in all cases be made aware of any surveillance conducted in the workplace, and of all justifications for such surveillance."
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Privacy In The Information Age, 1997.
Reviews the problems of privacy in the age of recorded information. Discusses concerns over abuse and the need for a comprehensive program of legislation to identify the problems, clarify the issues and offer a legal framework as a solution.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, $ 55.95
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"More and more people are concerned about the issue of privacy in an age in which virtually everything we do is recorded somewhere in a computer system. The potential for abuse is great. Congress has considered the issue, the courts have had to deal with it many times and will certainly have to address it in many cases in the future, and the public at large is convinced that there is a potential for abuse even if such abuse has not yet surfaced. Because of this concern, there is a need for a comprehensive program of legislation to identify the problem, clarify the issues, and offer a legal framework as a solution.
Anonymity on the Internet offers a form of privacy that is eagerly embraced by some and troubling to others. Part of the appeal of the Internet is that the user is anonymous if he or she wants to be. On-screen names are created and do not identify the user."
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Communities and the Information Age, 2002.
Investigates changing community structures in the Silicon Age.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper briefly explores how the Silicon Age has impacted the structure of community, primarily through improving communications that have created communities or facilitated community involvement.
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Intellectual Rights in the Information Age, 2003.
An overview of the impact of technology on intellectual rights in the business cycle.
4,253 words (approx. 17.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 113.95
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This paper discusses intellectual rights, assets that an organization must shepherd throughout its business cycle. It shows how, at various stages, the assets can be used as leverage, a source of cash flow, a source of future growth, or as a liquid asset that can generate new capital for new products and processes and how all of this enhances the company?s competitive advantage. In particular, it examines how technology is compressing the cycle-time of intellectual asset value and how an intellectual asset can go from asset to liability in a very short period of time due to technological improvements and changes. It shows how legal protections of the past, such as copyrights and patents, can today be circumvented by technical means and how new laws have been passed restricting the rights of users to modify or change the self-protective schema of the originators.
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"Organizations are beginning to recognize these various levels and needs of the intellectual property asset in order to achieve success. Many successful organizations have formalized methods of gathering, categorizing, and utilizing the collective knowledge of the individuals within the organization for the growth and benefit of the organization. Technological examples of this trend would include storage area networks (where all data is kept in a centralized repository), customer relationship management software (where the software is used to gather and retain specific knowledge of individual customers), and Software, CDs, or DVDs where the asset is not the physical media, but rather the data contained on the media."
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Information Age, 1994.
Dangers & opportunities in world connected by media & technology. Propaganda, instant communications, polling and impact on foreign policy.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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" There is a growing disparity between rich and poor in the world, and this disparity is evident within the confines of the United States as well. This disparity will gain a new dimension with the growth of the use of computers, for there will be a new element separating rich and poor--access to computer services. As the Information Age develops, there may be an information gap as there is a wage gap today. Another unfortunate problem facing us in the 1990s is international terrorism, the willingness of certain groups and even states to use terrorism as a weapon to gain an advantage. With the lessening of world tensions because of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, we may have thought the world would become a safer place. This is not happening, though, because there remain certain groups and states that refuse to comply with certain world standards for comportment."
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The Height of the Information Age, 2002.
An examination of the developments in the computer industry between 1955 and 2000.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 178.95
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This paper provides an examination on the rapid development of computers and the computer industry between the years 1995 and 2000. This paper references many specific aspects of the computer industry, such as processors, "object- oriented" software and embedded computers. There is a strong emphasis on the theory that the computer industry is progressing at a pace faster than the human being can comprehend.
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The Ethical Problems of Information Technology, 2002.
An overview of the ethical problems of information technology including computers, privacy issues and the IT revolution.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper will examine the contemporary ethical debates regarding new information technologies, with a particular emphasis upon privacy issues. While a number of differing viewpoints will be considered in this regard, it will argued that when one looks beneath the Utopian vistas promoted by corporations participating in the new information technologies, it becomes clear that these technologies presents disturbing ethical challenges to us today, and the possibility of a profound threat to our social privacy and political freedoms in the future.
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Age of Missing Information, The (Bill McKibben), 2001.
Critique of 1993 book on television. Aspects of TV viewing incl. choice, consumerism, destructive nature of medium.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"In The Age of Missing Information, Bill McKibben writes that "As much as [TV] loves choice, . . . it doesn't actually believe in choosing. It urges us to choose everything--this and this and this as well" (185). The question is, how can "TV"--an inanimate object or process--"believe" in anything? Does a river "believe" in the choice people have to look at it, or swim in it, or drown in it? The fact is that TV has a life of its own, just as the river does, and just as capitalistic society does in the theory of Karl Marx. TV, in that sense, does not "believe" in human beings' free choice any more than history believes in human beings' free choice. In both cases, human beings are dealing with forces beyond their control. And just as capitalism ultimately steals the soul of the worker (and the soul of the capitalist, too, of course), so does TV steal the soul of the.."
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Ethics in Information Technology, 2005.
Examines the issue of ethics in the field of IT.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the issue of ethics in Information technology. Specifically, this paper examines a situation that befell the writer some time ago and looks at the ethical and moral implications of a hospital staff member (a staff member known to the writer) who inadvertently accessed private medical information. Although this information proved useful in treating the patient, the paper looks at the implications of such conduct, the outcome arising from this particular incident, and some measures that can be undertaken so that misunderstandings are minimized and the patient's dignity is upheld.
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"Ethics in information technology is vitally important. Today, people live in a society that presents many opportunities for the invasion of their privacy or the privacy of their loved ones. With that in mind, it is evident that an ethical approach to information technology is essential if that new technology and the people who operate it are to be given the legitimacy they desire. One ethical issue that deeply affected this student involved time spent working in a local hospital where personal records were readily accessible. While this student personally was not involved, a business associate was. The core of the issue revolved around privacy, but the real dilemma was this: what course of action should an individual take if he or she inadvertently uncovers electronic information that may assist in the treatment of a patient but is considered to be "classified"."
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