Chapter 6

Reality check
The information Age has one
nagging problem much information
is not true. We live in a time
besotted with a bad information and
it's everywhere.
Seven fundamental types of Bad
Information
*Obvious but wrong information.
* Information Censored for your
own Good.
*Accurate But Untrue information.
*Millennial Information.
*Diagnostic Information.
*Statistical Information.
*Historical Information.
The Bad with Good
Bad information is insidious it look so
much like Good information. Bad
information does not happen by
accident it is promulgated.
Quite an assumption
• The danger is that we are reaching a
moment when not can be said to be
true when consensus about reality
dissappears. The information Age
could leave us with no information
at all only assertion.
Information Devolution

Rising population density and

improving communication cause
thought contagion to spread all over
the society before anyone has a
chance to check the fact. .
What's worse
Bad information is not the same
thing as misinformation if it's kill
you.
When it comes to information the
dictum of "X-Files" must always be
followed" Trust No One".
 Part Two
Business Commerce and
Services.
1 Article by: Robert Segal's
The coming Electronics
Commerce(R) evolution.

New information technologies

are:
*revolutionizing business.
*commerce in a evolutionary way.
Electronics system requires five
elements.

*secure network linking buyers and

sellers.
* a data base replete with product
information.
* easy to use buyers/seller interface
software, and processing orders.
* reliable email.
* a mechanism for shipping,
financing and processing orders.
2 Article :
Electronic Commerce :
Implications of the Internet for
business practice and strategy.

Ajit Kambil
- examines the implications of the
Internet and other technologies of
the information revolution for
business practice and strategy at
firmlevel.
3 Article by :Joanna Smith Bers.
Banking and Cyberspace (The new
Promised Land).
*which assert that electronic
commerce will enable banks both to
off-load some of their transaction -
oriented retail business and to tap
into a potentially vast financial
services market.
4 Article :Silicon Summit
Will Technology Affect the News?
* News will be one of the significant
factors influenced the adoption of
the new technologies.
* Consumer choice and control will
drive journalists successful
adaptation to new media.
* News content will not remain the
exclusive domain of traditional news
organizations.
* News professionals should learn to
exploit the natural tension between
the technical possibilities and the
economic realities of new media.
5 Article : Medical Information

Enrico Coiera
- observe that in medicine and
communication technologies must be
used to solve problems.
Telemedicine
- define as the communication of
information to facilitate clinical care.
6 Article :School Reform in the
Information Age
Howard Mehlinger
- predict that inevitably the
new technologies will be used
extensively in schools, but stop shout
of prognosticating on how they will
be used.
*knowledge communities
* educating
* credentialing
* communities practice
* space and time
* distance learning.
Questions :

1-4. Give atleast 4 fundamentals

type of Bad Information
5.Define as the communication of
information to clinical care.
6-7. Give atleast 4 kinds of articles.
1.Millennial Information
2.Diagnostic Information
3.Statistical Information
4.Historical Information
5.Telemedicine
6.Electronic Commerce
7.Banking and Cyberspace
8.Silicon Summit
9.Medical Information
10.Universities in Digital Age