Week 11EOC: The Future of the Internet

The future of the internet can be many things some think that it will be good with the inventions that many creative minds will have in store for them and how they will make it a better place, and there are others how think it is the root of many evils and that it should be stopped.  I think the reason why there are these ideas in many people’s head is the fact that some people are afraid to change, while others are not.

The Internet is a medium that is evolving at breakneck speed. It’s a wild organism of sweeping cultural change — one that leaves the carcasses of dead media forms in its sizeable wake. It’s transformative: it has transformed the vast globe into a ‘global village’ and it has drawn human communication away from print-based media and into a post-Gutenberg digital era.

 

There are a lot of people out there who use the internet to communicate with others, an example is all the social media sites that are out there for people to use as well as the news, sports, all of these places have websites so they communicate with their target audience quickly and accurately.

It is still too early to say that theinternet has fragmented into “internets”, but there is a danger that it maysplinter along geographical and commercial boundaries.

No one really knows what the future is going to bring us we can only predict and hope that we are right when the events actually unfold.  Is anyone here really more wrong than others it is hard to say, but the fact that technology changes so fast it is very hard for some people to keep up with what is going on in the world today

In Future Shock, Toffler arguesthat, since the eighteenth century, technological developments have advanced sorapidly that most people experience disorientation in trying to adjust to thesechanges. Toffler cites as evidence of massive “future shock” such phenomena asrising divorce rates, increased drug use, and rising crime rates.

Week 10 EOC: The Dark Trade

When I watched the movie “Illicit,” I was actually found it to be very interesting on things were in the world today.  What I liked the most about it was the fact that it didn’t sugar coat what a lot of people did to make products on the black market.  The movie gave you specific and realistic examples of what some people have done and how far they can go to make money in this world.  Now what I did find rather humorous but yet I could see being very true is the in the movie was stating how most of the people who were behind the black market had lots of money the problem was they didn’t how to spend it without raising questions from others.  This was due to the fact that when you’re that rich you want to do what most people do with that kind of money, you want to show it off.  The problem arises when how to show off that money when you don’t have a job, you didn’t win the lottery, you didn’t come from a rich family, so the question comes up “Where did you get all this money?”  If you think about a smart person can easily make an income off the internet if they know how to do it, there are a lot of people out there who use the internet to help with their addiction whether it be drugs, pornography, etc. and most of the addicts if they get cheated out of their money aren’t going to run to their authorities due to the fact that if they did they would incriminating themselves as well, one thing many of the villains are very well aware of at this point in time.   I also found it to be very interesting but also very true when the movie stated that the bad guy almost always wins in this war against the black market, which is for the most part true.  Now to be realistic I’m sure that the governments and normal businesses have had their share of victories in this, but there is no doubt in my mind they are a lot fewer than the many the villains have obtained.  Now the reason for this is actually very simple it falls back to one statement, “We are our worst enemy.”  What that statement basically means is that we can’t really win due to the fact that there is always someone out there who will buy these products that are built on the black market, because they don’t want to the normal prices from the regular businesses who make these.  Not to mention the fact that the villains are well aware of this and use this to their advantage, and if they were to ever want to stop them from profiting from this, it’s not just going to take our governments involvement in this, it’s going to take all of us to do it.