Read the interview with an IT specialist and choose the appropriate questions to fill in the blanks in it What problems can rapid computer development cause? A conflict? What are the possible ways to cope with this problem? Shouldn't there be regulation against fraud? What can we do with the medical misinformation? Do you know the answer to the question? So will there be an Internet connection in every home soon? How about buying one? Interviewer: May I ask you a few questions, Esther? Esther Dickinson: Certainly, fire away. Interviewer: Esther: The same problems we deal with now: privacy, freedom of speech, responsibility, and confidentiality are just a few which come to mind. The Internet, for example, may create conflict between countries. Interviewer: Esther: You see, it's easy enough to have laws and enforce them in your own country, but things that happen on the Internet go on regardless of national boundaries. On the one hand, it is good, on the other, it is already resulting in conflict. A country can close down the Internet access altogether. We know such examples. Interviewer: Esther: Well, we could let that country know it's being stupid and if it wants to be part of the world's economy and part of the Internet, it will just have to adjust to the fact that you can't control what everybody says. Interviewer: Sometimes misinformation may be dangerous, take medical advice and advertising on the Internet. Esther: In this case I agree with you. But, again, not all countries' definitions of fraud are the same. Interviewer: Esther: Informing people better can be one of the solutions. We have the same problems in real life where certain people don't want their children to be operated on following someone's advice, even though standard medical thinking suggests that an operation would save or help the child. People often recommend medicines to their friends and acquaintances, though the same medicine can do good to one person and harm to another. The problem is that such information now is much more broadly spread than ever before thanks to the Internet. Nowadays people should be cleverer and more responsible because they are bombarded with a lot of information, both true and untrue. The question is how much can the government depend on the good sense of its citizens and to what degree should it get involved? Interviewer: Esther: I'm afraid I don't. Right now we rely on editors and other intermediaries to filter information for you, but when you start giving that kind of control to the government, I'm not sure that we'll necessarily get a positive result. Interviewer: Esther: It's very likely for a number of countries. The rest of the world will continue to be challenged. But there will always be people who resist whatever it is. For example, I don't have a telephone in my home. Interviewer: Esther: I used to have a phone and decided I didn't want it around. Interviewer: It has been said that the distance between the haves and the have-nots will grow as a result of the computer and people saying "I'll learn it" or "I won't learn it". Esther: It will be pretty necessary for the next generation of children to have computer skills, but I'm sure they will gain them without even noticing. Do you remember learning how to use the telephone? Besides, computers are going to become easier to use. Anyhow, people will have to learn how to think and how to do knowledge work, so the problem isn't the computer but education and having intellectual skills.

Задание

Read the interview with an IT specialist and choose the appropriate questions to fill in the blanks in it

What problems can rapid computer development cause?
A conflict?
What are the possible ways to cope with this problem?
Shouldn't there be regulation against fraud?
What can we do with the medical misinformation?
Do you know the answer to the question?
So will there be an Internet connection in every home soon?
How about buying one?

Interviewer: May I ask you a few questions, Esther?

Esther Dickinson: Certainly, fire away.

Interviewer:[ ]

Esther: The same problems we deal with now: privacy, freedom of speech, responsibility, and confidentiality are just a few which come to mind. The Internet, for example, may create conflict between countries.

Interviewer:[ ]

Esther: You see, it's easy enough to have laws and enforce them in your own country, but things that happen on the Internet go on regardless of national boundaries. On the one hand, it is good, on the other, it is already resulting in conflict. A country can close down the Internet access altogether. We know such examples.

Interviewer:[ ]

Esther: Well, we could let that country know it's being stupid and if it wants to be part of the world's economy and part of the Internet, it will just have to adjust to the fact that you can't control what everybody says.

Interviewer: Sometimes misinformation may be dangerous, take medical advice andadvertising on the Internet. [ ]

Esther: In this case I agree with you. But, again, not all countries' definitions of fraud are the same.

Interviewer:[ ]

Esther: Informing people better can be one of the solutions. We have the same problems in real life where certain people don't want their children to be operated on following someone's advice, even though standard medical thinking suggests that an operation would save or help the child. People often recommend medicines to their friends and acquaintances, though the same medicine can do good to one person and harm to another. The problem is thatsuch information now is much more broadly spread than ever before thanks to the Internet. Nowadays people should be cleverer and more responsible because they are bombarded with a lot of information, both true and untrue. The question is how much can the government depend on the good sense of its citizens and to what degree should it get involved?

Interviewer:[ ]

Esther: I'm afraid I don't. Right now we rely on editors and other intermediaries to filter information for you, but when you start giving that kind of control to the government, I'm not sure that we'll necessarily get a positive result.

Interviewer:[ ]

Esther: It's very likely for a number of countries. The rest of the world will continue to be challenged. But there will always be people who resist whatever it is. For example, I don't have a telephone in my home.

Interviewer:[ ]

Esther: I used to have a phone and decided I didn't want it around.

Interviewer: It has been said that the distance between the haves and the have-nots will grow as a result of the computer and people saying "I'll learn it" or "I won't learn it".

Esther: It will be pretty necessary for the next generation of children to have computer skills, but I'm sure they will gain them without even noticing. Do you remember learning how to use the telephone? Besides, computers are going to become easier to use. Anyhow, people will have to learn how to think and how to do knowledge work, so the problem isn't the computer but education and having intellectual skills.

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