{"id":16441,"date":"2013-08-07T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=16441"},"modified":"2013-08-07T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:43:27","slug":"the-internet-all-or-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/08\/the-internet-all-or-nothing.html","title":{"rendered":"The Internet: All or Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Margaret Atwood\u2019s dystopian novel set in the near future,\u00a0The Year of the Flood<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, said this about the internet, and I thought it deserved to be shared (p.293):<\/p>\n

And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that, my friends, is why I think information literacy is so important. The alternative is a dystopian future in which what could have been free and open access to information becomes instead a simulacrum in which no one knows what is real and what isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

But perhaps that future is unavoidable, even so\u2026<\/p>\n

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