SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE FUTURE
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- Contagion
- A passing on of something, whether information, behavior, or disease, by direct contact or touch
- cyberspace
- the abstract location where information is said to be exchanged in the information age
- cyberterrorism
- a means of attack that relies not on physical damage, but on crippling the enemys technology and communications infrastructure
- future studies
- the area of research concerned with the forecasting of possible future scenarios in order to prepare for and shape what may come
- genetic manipulation
- the altering of genes to produce a more desirable physicla makeup
- globalization
- the denationalization of politics, markets, and legal systems leading to the formation of a global economu, as well as the homogenizing and.or dispersal of cultures and peoples through communications and improved transportations.
- information age
- a historical time- the present- in which information of all forms is quickly and esaily acccessible via the internet and computers
- information economy
- an economy in which information is treated like any other commodity and can be bough, sold, traded, and so on.
- rumour
- a type of information diffusion in which the content is not pure misinformation but is conveived for a purpose with limited reliability.