Are People Better Informed in the Information Society?

After reading both sides of the Arguement, both sides have valid points. I would have to say that people are much better informed in the information society. The reason I sided for the information society is because when you look at how far we have come in the past 20-15 years it is amazing.  People can find out the latest news around the world with a click of a mouse, and colleges are receiving record amounts of applicants. As we read in the article, Linda Jackson does a test with students from the ages of 10 to 18 seeing how there test scores are affected when they use the Internet more often. The results showed that kids who used the Internet more had higher scores on standardized test of reading achievement and higher GPA's. From these test results how can you argue that the Internet and media have a negative effect on people? However I do agree that Internet usage should be limited to a certain amount of hours each week because kids do tend to abuse the privilege of the Internet. Also another reason people are more informed in the information society is because instead of people sitting around asking themselves questions and wondering about the answer, people can get on their computers and research anything they want. With the way technology is constantly growing and expanding I think that the Internet will be essential in the future for our youth and no matter how much you may argue that were better off without the Internet, the Internet will still grow and over power any objections you have towards it. The future will be a very technology savvy era and I think it will go down in history as one of the greatest and most important times that the world has ever seen. Although we have all of this technology to help us on our journey to information. We still live in a world filled with a majority of uneducated people.