If a digital person is only a person with a high tech profile and with large knowledge of computer science, the digital society isn't being built, because those are a few. Do you realize how absurd of a statement that is? The last time I checked, there are about 1/2 million degreed Electrical and Computer Engineers in the United states alone, and that does not count pure computer software engineers. And also does not include Network administrators, computer technicians, web designers, etc. Which concretively, there are anywhere from three to five million "Digital Persons" in the US Most of the users of computers and networks are just users and the work they develop doesn't need lots (or even a few) of mathematics or programming languages, because experts have been making those tools friendly. Wrong again! Interesting, so how many experts do you think there are making those tools friendly? About a half dozen or so sitting in some basement? Nevertheless the work they develop with digital tools make them digital persons too, not only the experts. I am quite sure that nowadays, those who became everyday users of a word processor, for instance, do not write on a sheet of paper the same way they did before using the word processor. There are several studies showing evidence of that. If one considers the use of networks it happens to be the same! Don't you think so? No I don't. A digital person is a creator. A person who goes to an art fair to buy the painting to admire or use it in their home is not the artist. Nor does a person who reads self help psychology books a PhD psychologist.
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