Knowledge as a Vaccine against the Information Epidemic Alan Cherchesov (Wladikawkaz)
Any excessive optimism about the modern mass-media and the process of globalization
can be easily tamed up if we only remember the history of the Internet
birth. Apparently, it has three parents: the newest technologies, the arms
race and the trivial democratic slogans. Besides, it can be an ideal instrument
for a refined totalitarism which threatens our future not less than it
inspires us by the huge possibilities for producing and spreading the most
useful skills and knowledge all over the world. We also face an absolutely
new type of culture which depends much more on a visual perception than
on reading the books. Undoubtedly, it affects the traditional human creative
imagination and thus produces some sudden problems which we are not ready
to solve and sometimes even to name...
Papers held at the conference "Knowledge Networking in Cultural
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