Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dahlia!sagibson
From: sagibson@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Slime)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Another Effect of Computers
Summary: information overload
Keywords: information chaos
Message-ID: <12451@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 89 17:40:25 GMT
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Reply-To: sagibson@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Simon Gibson)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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I worry that if more information is available to the average
citizen, that people can be too easily swayed by false information
(ie mass opinion change) or that the number of political
opinons diversify to the point where there is NEVER a consensus.

So we have either an indecisive world or one which is always in
revolution. (like Italy?)

Scary for democracy. 

With hypertext, could one "slant" the user into reading
information organized into a propoganda-manner? Seems possible.

cheers ** Simon
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Simon Gibson (alias "Slime")
sagibson@dahlia.waterloo.edu