We must be aware that technology is not neutral but indeed represents the values of the society where it is developed. For this reason, we need to channel our efforts towards disabling those factors (such as technophobia) that are limiting the potential for Information technology knowledge acquisition to provide sustainable solutions to the needs of Nigerians. In order to reach the broadest range of minds, ideas from every discipline should be presented in many different forms.

There is no single creative technique or imaginative skill that is adequate for all thinking requirements. Every idea can and should be transformed into numerous equivalent forms, each of which possesses a different formal expression and emphasizes a different group of thinking tools. The more ways students are able to imagine an idea, the greater their chances of insight, and the more ways in which they can express that insight, the greater the chances that others will be able to understand and appreciate it.

Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein, co-authors of Sparks of Genius, conducted extensive research into the minds of inventive people and showed that creativity can be encouraged and enhanced through the exercise of thinking tools coupled with a desire for what they call “synosia” a unified understanding linking mind and body, sense and sensibility.

In less than 10 years, between 1994 and 2003, the mammoth global network of computer systems collectively referred to as the Internet blossomed from an obscure tool used by government researchers and academics into a worldwide mass communications medium.

As we enter 2003, the Internet is now recognized as the leading carrier of all communications and financial transactions this will impact on almost all forms of life and work in the 21st century.

Presently, communities and nations around the globe, often without being directly conscious of it, are beginning to design the initial blueprints for the so-called “cyberplaces” of the 21st century. Singapore has implemented its “Intelligent Island Plan”. Japan is working toward an electronic future known as “Technopolis” or “Teletopia”.

As early as 1976, the French launched an aggressive plan called “Telematique”, which sought to place computers on every desktop and in every residence in the country. In the United States in the mid-1990s, the Clinton Administration unveiled its ambitious “National Information Initiative”, or NII, with the goal of linking every school and school-age child to the Internet by the turn of the century.

The New creative class is like the Managerial Class of the 1950s, they are the norm-setting class of the present era applying and using technology. The growth of the Internet's now most-infamous component, the World Wide Web, has been even more spectacular. With more than 700 million users worldwide and a growth rate of 15 percent per month, it is being integrated into the marketing, information and communications strategies of almost every major corporation, educational institution, charitable and political organization, community service agency and government entity in the United States.

A brief study of electronic history demonstrates that no previous advance, not the telephone, television, cable or satellite TV, the VCR, the facsimile machine or the mobile telephone, has penetrated public consciousness and secured such widespread public adoption as rapid as the Internet.

The questions that many people are now asking are concerned with determining where this phenomenon will ultimately lead. Predictions range from so-called electronic “virtual communities,” in which individuals interact socially with like-minded Internet users around the

“Our case load is increasing dramatically. In Year 1998, we opened 547 computer intrusion cases; in FY 1999, that had jumped to 1154. At the same time, because of the opening the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) in February 1998, and our improving ability to fight cyber crime, we closed more cases. In Year 1998, we closed 399 intrusion cases, and in Year 1999, we closed 912 such cases.
“However, given the exponential increase in the number of cases opened, cited above, our actual number of pending cases has increased by 39%, from 601 at the end of Year 1998, to 834 at the end of Year 1999. In short, even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions, the problem is growing even faster”.