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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. | 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. | ||
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| + | I found the New York Times Magazine online slideshow “A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana” very interesting. I had no idea that the medal inside of these computers are more valuable to the people of Ghana than actually using the computers to help with work, schooling, and many other items that we in America use today. What I found interesting and what I didn’t even think of until I saw the slide was Greenpeace’s findings high levels lead, cadmium, antimony, PCB’s and chlorinated dioxins, in the soil- which can hurt the people living in that area depending on how much they are exposed to it. The most shocking part of the slideshow was how young the scavengers were, all in their teenage years from age 11 to 17. – Megan Gallagher | ||
