http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/20/internet-everything-need-to-know
This is my summary to the article I read:
We are very dependent on the internet.
As we are living in the internet revolution, it’s hard to digest how much of an impact it has had on society.
We only see the changes through slogans, and not all times they show the REAL truth.
We could see the long term effect by looking at the past. Looking at the printing press and how it changed the way society communicated in the past, and reflect that change as a similarity of the internet.
Gutenberg’s invention changed: the authority of the Catholic Church, powered the reformation.
As the internet is still new, it is hard to tell how much long term impact there is.
The internet and the web are two different things: The internet is a network of computers, and the web is a collection of pages accessible by the internet.
People are worried that the internet is very disruptive.
Vint Cerf and Robert Khan created the internet.
The internet allows no administrators- no one person could control the internet.
And the internet would accept anything.
This is where the problems lies- there is no control leaving it to become a dangerous unstable place accessible to billions.
Tim Bernes-Lee created the web.
Shawn Fanning created Napster software for sharing music files.
Other programs have been created such as viruses, Trojans, worms, which can’t be controlled and can be so dangerous, that it could even shut down industries, a possible internet 9/11.
With all the internet’s information, it has allowed a range of media to become accessible to many.
The internet is very complex and this is what makes it difficult to control and protect its content and its audiences.
The network called the internet allowed people to store their data not on the computer hard drive itself, but in the “cloud”. This means less storage space is needed but also means lots of security and data protection problems.
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