Information
Questions
1. What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘information’?
2. Do you have more information than your grandparents?
3. Is it important to know a lot of information in today’s world?
4. Are you happy to be living in the ‘Information Age’?
5. How do you gather information?
6. What has the Internet done for information?
7. What is information overload?
8. How much useless information do you think you’ve learned?
Videos
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information
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that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
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Category: Technology