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So what?
- Information is what makes the world go 'round.
- Most people deal all the time with information or
artifacts for dealing with information
- Money, entertainment, culture: all are transmitted as
information
Can Ethics be taught or learned?
- Yes. Fundamentally, values are learned.
- Most values (ethics, perspectives...) are learned while we
are younger
- Information ethics come later, and today's generations might
not get them from parents or early education. Why not?
- People might not have used computers while they were younger,
or not for communication and information intensive activities
- Parents and teachers might not have a good grasp of
information ethics
- New computer users tend to focus on the interface and steps
to accomplish tasks, not the concepts behind them
- Sophisticated analytic thought does not occur as much in
youngsters - usually, analytic thinking skills are not well developed
until the late teens
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