There’s one thing that very interested to me which is anything that innovated to connected people from each other must be a very successful business. Just take a look at our history, paper letter, Telegraph, radio, Television, Telephone and today’s social network website such as Facebook. The book mentioned that human are socialized species and that’s our instinct.
We share billions of information through the internet everyday which means we can almost know everything that is going on in the world. Just imaging what would Ivanna do without internet? She probably give up that phone already. The social network is very powerful today because millions of people are on the site that they see it, they hear it and they share it. In mathematical way to calculate the number of shares, we can see that since one people see it and share it to another one and go on to the infinite people 2^99 . Therefore the information will explore in any moment. That’s sounds scary that we are no longer be able to keep our privacy because of the power of the network.
Some people call the internet “Information Super Highway” as the whole of the world that is in constant transition. For example, that the one week’s contents on the NewYorkTimes is far exceed one person’s entire life from seventeen century. The Internet drives the hottest stocks on Wall Street, shapes technological innovation, and fills the pages of the world’s presses. The book mentioned from the chapter two that people were managing their business and collect data by their hand. It’s must be time consuming and need a lot of people to do the work. In today, we only need few professionals and few managers to do the work in the much easier way.
Today, internet allows us to do research, pay bills, find old friends, new friends, look for jobs and so much more. The Internet has certainly made the world a smaller place by getting more information to more people. However, there’re also many controversy questions. Even though internet brings many changes, what does those changes mean for society, government, commerce, and other institutions? How will the way we live, work, learn, profit, govern, and communicate? Is that good or bad for our next generation? and our future ?
I’m glad you asked those questions at the end of your post, because I’ve asked many of them myself. As it stands right now I think the internet is an entity in itself. A crazy sort of wild west that thrives off of users being able to collaborate with each other freely. Like you, I wonder what all this means when the government comes into play. Will the internet still be the “internet” after some of the ridiculous proposed legislation (i.e. SOPA, PIPA etc). I just hope for everyone’s sake we don’t screw up the internet, so far I think we have a good thing going.