I don’t really want to mention the cliché ‘Every coin has two sides’, but when it comes to internet, it has undoubtedly two ambiguous sides.
One is beneficial to us when we use it properly doing legal things. However, the other side can be devastating if we utilize it committing a crime, like hacker stealing other’s credit card through internet.
For the short run, I think the internet benefits all mankind. It seems the advantages of using internet lhave argely outnumbered the disadvantages. For instance, in terms of the most obvious advantage, it provides us a quick way of doing research, finding data. On the other hand, for the long run, I think the internet is deteriorating our sensibility and perception. Like Nicholas Carr mentions in The Shallows that ‘Our ways of thinking, perceiving, and acting…we change them through the way we live…through the tools we use'(31). It’s true because we as human have placed overwhelming reliance on the internet. Our eyesight and even our ability of concentration, like Nicholas has specified, has been worsen over time as we spend too much effort and time on internet. If we don’t figure out some remedies for this deterioration, we mankind will eventually become the servants of internet.