Symposium 5.

Something Adrian raised at the end of our symposium today was regarding being network literate. Knowing simply how to change the theme of your blog, does not make you network literate, nor a cyberspace mastermind. Who knows how many hundred/thousand lines of code are behind that. Lines of code of which someone very tech savvy has previously created (not you!). He also used this analogy. If your tyre goes flat, and you jack up your car and replace it, you are not instantly a professional mechanic. Highly trained engineers were the ones who designed the mechanics behind those steps and made it oh-so-simple for you. Without them, you would have been in struggle town. In the exact same way, it’s the very intelligent IT technicians who make the internet a tool that is accessible for everyone, even for your 82 year old grandma who grew up playing marbles, not Minecraft. Food for thought.

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