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(New page: At times, Andrew Ross’s article seemed prophetic. Think about the time that he is writing: 1991. Some of us were just being born. Others were too young to use computers. At this time, co...) |
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Another social aspect that was foreseen was the democratization of computer use. At least 90% of Americans have touched a computer. No longer is it only the white middle-class and college educated that use computers. Another correlation that can be drawn from this is that more and more hackers are form diverse backgrounds. Ross mistakenly stated that hackers were not politically motivated. It seems that that is the primary reason for hacking nowadays, which also leads to hackers of diverse backgrounds. | Another social aspect that was foreseen was the democratization of computer use. At least 90% of Americans have touched a computer. No longer is it only the white middle-class and college educated that use computers. Another correlation that can be drawn from this is that more and more hackers are form diverse backgrounds. Ross mistakenly stated that hackers were not politically motivated. It seems that that is the primary reason for hacking nowadays, which also leads to hackers of diverse backgrounds. | ||
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| + | I found Ross's section concerning viruses and the public's response to them interesting. It never occurred to me before, but his connection between computer viruses and HIV was dead on. I think 20 years ago when this article was written that people feared computer viruses because so much was unknown about them as well as computers in general. Today we all have programs to protect against viruses, but we all know they can still happen but it typically is not the end of the world. I think the most interesting thing to me is that we have actually been able to watch this change develop. We have seen the panic and uncertainty over viruses change into something that is now understood and expected when computers and the internet are involved. --Meagan B. | ||
