“Sociumas”: the New Issue

Published: 8 August 2000 y., Tuesday
Internet is the worldwide translations mean that lets transmit information, cooperate and assist to individuals and their computers not depending on their geographically limited position. Internet has appeared not so long ago; but during its short life its usage was promptly widened from the group of scientists to the global infrastructure covering millions of users and milliards of dollars. But another brand of Internet and growth of technologies concerning it must not be forgotten, too. In spite of the prompt growth of Internet, total percentage of its users in the world-wide scale is very low, Internet is available only for approximately 200 millions dwellers out of 6 milliards population of the planet, that’s why almost 97% make up “digital third world”. Read about it in the article “Digital “third world” and its borders” prepared by Ieva Èepulkauskaitë.

Is the human being the most perfect in the world? Perhaps the day when the new information technologies- creation of the human hands, will leave its creator behind is not very far. The nightmare of modern computer engineers-Frankensteins is the future where computer based organisms can probably take over the humans. Three years ago the chess match between the World's best grand master Gary Kasparov and IBM supercomputer Deep Blue showed humans that their fears are real. Read about the miracles of the information technologies and their future in the article “Is human memory 'better' than computer memory because it is imperfect?” prepared by Marius Kuitniauskas.

Novelties that bring humanity to progress is not the only thing computer networks give. Together With these novelties computer networks also bring computer networks bring new forms of deviance, like intrusion into electronic communication, spread of computer viruses, theft of information about credit and bank cards and lots of other that violate interests of individual and whole society. As global network enables interaction in spite of physical distances, new type of communication and new type of deviance in the computer networks is characterized by the fact that it oversteps the borders of separate countries and becomes global problem. Read about violation of electronic privacy, about violations related to financial operations, about violation of copyrights and the ones related to the spreading of information in the article “Forms and types of computer crimes” prepared by Domas Ûselis.

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