The participating schools are putting together a paper with articles by students. Here are some of the swedish contributions.

The disadvantages with informationteknology
by Anders, Joel and Emanuel 8d

Internet habits!

To have made Internet into a habit, can mean two things.

That you use Internet often and need it at home, if you are handicapped it can be life important to have access to Internet. In this reference Internet and IT is an advantage, but Internet can also be like a drug. You feel that you must continue and can’t stop. The medical term for this behaviour is Neladdicts. Those who got this problem, sometimes spend a whole day in front of the computer and shuts out reality.

The human computer!

Isn’t it right that our brain is a machine of its kind, but it can’t handle everything. The fast developing has put single persons beside.

Our brains are not adept to handle all the information a busy man gets to day. That is, that the human brain filtrates away a lot of the not important information. He/she becomes forgetful. The high and constant information receive can also appear as information stress.

The big and advanced tasks that the worker is puts in front off, in the modern society, can not be handled. This will in the future lead to that people is going to specialise more at his work. He also has to be more flexible to quick changes and be able to jump from job to job.

Maybe he will be working in five to ten years and then go back to school again to qualify for new job or maybe the same job.

The shutdown of the human work force!

The big and fast development "saves" a lot of work opportunities for us humans. The companies are happy about the robots that never complain over the salary, want better schedule, or take lunch break. Those who controls the robots are happy over the small physical efforts that the job give rise to. But what happens when the robot takes over for maybe ten workers? The workers have to find new jobs. Maybe they have to go back to school or find their own ways. This can take a long time if it is even possible. Who wants to hire a 45-year-old, with zero of experience?

All of this could lead to great unemployment.

Information stress!

More and more people find today that they can’t handle all the information we constantly are feed with. It is like this because we receive three times more information than our brains are adapted to. This is called information stress.

When you for example read the newspaper at the morning you receive just as much information than a normal man got during his whole lifetime, for about a hundred years ago! Our capacity to receive information hasn’t changed sense then. If you think this way you don’t get surprised over the rising numbers of victims. Information stress can lead to problem sleeping, perspiration or maybe gastric ulcer.

A solution for the problem has been found for Internet users. The information the user not is interested in is filtrated away from the rest. This method can not be used in TV or radio, so it is just to bite together and hang in there.

Cancer of electricity?

The conversation about the affect on humans and animals that live close to high-tension lines, has been going on for a long time without any result. But now a Swedish investigation based on over 50 000 persons connected leukaemia to the effect from the high-tension lines. These persons also have a risk times 3,8, compared to other people, to get cancer!

Other investigations showed that people who worked in contact with, and got exposed to magnetic fields more often than other people got leukaemia or brain cancer. This will lead new recommendations about magnetic fields at the place of work and that the high-tension lines won’t lead throw any settlements.

Is IT a threat to democracy?

A lot of people see Internet as a tool to improve and make democracy stronger. But Internet is also used in the fight for political groups that not always has democracy as a goal. For example new nazistical and rasistical movements. They

use Internet to spread the false "information" that says that the Holocast (Jew extermination) never took place and they intersect the race clean society. These

Is this what we want? movements would normally have been forbidden to spread their propaganda, but over Internet there are no law which can reach them. There has been several cases were new nazistical movements have spread there propaganda and even delivered threats. This can not be tolerated! There have to be created laws that can reach them.

Pornography

An other thing that has taken big proportions is the pornography. Sex et cetera is the biggest search word at the Internet. It is not only ordinary pornography it is about, you can also find animal abusing and child abusing. They also sell sexual favours. It’s quite odd that this can be shown to public on the Internet that every body speaks so nice about.

Second hand value and computer scrap!

The constant process of developing can lead to two things. The second hand value drops and all the use less computers leave al lot of scrap. Wen you for example by a totally new computer for about 2000 $, maybe two years later it will be worth 200 $ or less.

All of these consumed computers leave al lot of scrap. They are just lying around when they could become new equipment. The most dangerous stuff in computers are flame protective stuff, Pb, PbO, Cd, PCB, Hg.

My Greatest Love - By a student in 8d, Trelleborg

My greatest love is my Fritte.

She is probably the cutest, thickest and kindest I have and that I ever had.

She usually comes by in the morning when I’m going to school.She usually comes over on the evening too.We usually lay down and have a cosy time in the TV-sofa.I like to pull my hand through her thick, orange hair.She usually goes home at nine O’clock, but occasionally she sleeps over. It's nice. We met two years ago.It was snowing and cold. We met on the road outside our house.I invited her in! She liked it. It seemed as if she enjoyed it.We drank O´boy and had a good time.Then we began to spend more time with each other.In the end of winter -96 when the snow had gone I found out! She was pregnant.

I became happy but I wondered who the dad was.I was so happy that I didn’t care.She moved in with me and she still lives here.If you wan to know, she got two children but they were adopted.She was indeed sad when they were gone.My family and I helped her to get over the worst time.Now she’s much better and she is happy almost all the time.That was all I had to tell you about "My Greatest Love - My Cat!"