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.