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A 4 page paper that begins with a definition, description and discussion of info-enthusiasm, as discussed by Brown and Duguid. The rest of the essay discusses info-enthusiasm and info-enthusiasts in more detail and cautions against this mindset because the expectations and predictions of early info-enthusiasts did not materialize. The essay also discusses the need to consider social context. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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information technology that can change everything. It could have to do with quality versus quantity but in a slightly different light than the phrase typically means. There is no question
regarding the quality of most advanced information technology, the quality has to do with how that technology affects the quality of life in a broad sense. We all remember hearing
the proclamation that "the Internet changes everything" (Liebowitz, 2002) but does it really change everything? Certainly, it changes the way business is conducted, the way people communicate with each other,
how researchers research, how financial transactions occur and how hundreds of other things are accomplished. The Internet changes many different aspects in our lives but so did all the technological
advances that came before it (Liebowitz, 2002). Woodall (2000) commented that information technology "is revolutionising [sic] the way we communicate, work, shop and play." Persons making that proclamation would fit
the description of an info-enthusiast who believe information and the Internet have changed the world completely (Brown and Duguid, 2000). The fact is that many things are the same as
they were before the Internet became so available and accessible to so many (Brown and Duguid, 2000). In fact, many things in the world are the same as they were
prior to the beginning of the information age itself (Brown and Duguid, 2000). The great predictions and the expectations of information technology in the 1980s about electronic cottages, the elimination
of cold cash, the obsolescence of newspapers, books and magazines, and many other expectations have not materialized. The paperless society promoted by info-enthusiasts during that decade has instead become a
society with even more paper. These were myths created by info-enthusiasts. Info-enthusiasm and Society We would most likely describe info-enthusiasts as geeks," they know all about computers and
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