At the moment Egypt is in the news daily. This whole thing in Egypt makes on think about the technology and the Internet again. The actions in Egypt were coordinated for a large part via the Internet, people communicated with one another via the Internet and information was getting out of the country that way as well. Nowadays you can do nearly everything over it. Learn, buy, create, make money, fight, communicate, telephone... The list goes on and on.
I grew up with the Internet from young childhood on. I don't know it any other way. But think back twenty, thirty years. None of this would have been possible as easy. Coordinating protests, etc. has become immensely easier with the development of the Internet. I think this World Wide Web is one of the most important factors in making the saying that the world gets smaller every day true. Not all that long ago it was difficult to keep in touch with someone living only a few hundred km away... now he/she can live on the other side of earth.
Hm, anyway, I am curious to see how the Internet develops in the future - I do believe some changes will be made, though.
- Johann
No comments:
Post a Comment