s caused.Snider paints a pretty grim picture of the environment if we allow the information revolution to continue. He describes a world where the human population is spread evenly through out the world. He talks about how if the human population were to spread itself out there would be a global destruction of the environment. The only problem with this picture is that it is built on could happens and might happens. For this picture to become real, people would have to leave the large urban areas. This is not likely to happen because many people stay were they grew up. If you grew up with the hustle and bustle of a big city all around you, the idea of living in a small town sounds boring. Statics show that a little over 90 percent of people live within a 50 mile radius of where they grew up. No one wants to leave family and friends, so many people stay were they grew up, weather it be a small town or the big city.The information revolution has also brought a new wave of crime, electronic crime. The databases we hold so dear are one of the main reasons for this new kind of crime. When you have peoples whole lives on a computer, it is a very tempting target. This new crime is hard to stop and even harder to catch the people who are doing it. Even though it is hard to stop and hard to catch the people, we still do catch them. Every day new programs are coming out to stop these criminals from gaining access to peoples sensitive information. For every new program a hacker creates to break into someones database, there is a program created to stop it.The information revolution is a revolution that does not understand what being social is. Many people spend hours on the computer every day. These people have no social life, but the virtual social life they have created on the Internet. Many colleges have banned or restricted students, who are on the Internet to much, from using the Internet. Colleges like the University of Mary...
