The internet has become the engine that makes the technology vehicle evolve and grow in our society and many societies across the world. It is convenient and efficient in many ways. Searching for information is one of those ways and starts with one of the many popular search engines, such as Google or Yahoo. By simply typing in key words you can retrieve thousands upon thousands of results and navigate your way through what is useful and/or reliable for you and what is not. In addition, these search engines are set up in a way that they make the key words you put in correlate to the key words in the resources and links they find, making it more efficient by relevance of what you are looking for. The internet is an effective way to communicate as well all over the world through outlets like instant messaging, e-mail, blog websites, twitter, social networking sites like myspace or facebook, and so on. Much of this makes collaboration from many different parts of the world possible. People from many different ethnicities, social classes, geographic regions, religious backgrounds, and other diversities can talk about common and different issues among them. This form of global socialization has become a staple of international communication recently and continues to grow and effect our daily lives. Another important positive of the internet is the gateways to education that it has opened for people that may not have otherwise been able to take advantage of. With the increasing popularity and growth of online education and distance learning, anyone with and internet connection and a computer is able to get an education. This enables people who work odd hours, have kids, are disabled, or have unreliable transportation to go to school and get a legitimate degree from an accredited college or university if they so choose(Oak). With the popularity and competition of the internet, speeds have continued to increase as well from the internet providers across the country. For example, a typical internet connection is 6 or 8 megabytes per second. Comcast is now offering up to 50 megabytes per second and may increase that in the future (Comcast.com). Verizon is offering the same thing as well in its markets (Verizon.com). With so much competition among different providers of such a popular product, prices should maintain competitive allowing most people to continue to take advantage of the internet and its many positives on our society. For example, Verizon is now offering a bundle of internet, phone, and television for only 89.99 per month (Verizon.com)
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I think that the bridging and joining of people all over the world can be a positive or negative. It can lead to enlightenment and diversity of different cultures, religions, and nationalities, but can also lead to people who are trying to cause harm in the world having better access to communication. People like pedophiles and terrorists. Overall, a very good resource we must be very careful with imo.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it is really difficult to monitor something that is so vast. It reminds of the concept of trying to police the universe, being impossible because of its size and mass numbers of objects. The on top of that, we must be careful to give law enforcement just enough power that they can do their job, but still obey our freedoms.
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