My response to The Internet: Everything you ever need to know

I believe that we are very dependent on the internet and find it hard to imagine life without it, thought it is a very recent phenomenon.

It is really difficult to realise how much of an impact it has been on our lives, but though researchers can look at the impact of the printing press, to understand the possible impact of the internet, I don't think it will give a true value to the internet's impact. This is because the impact of the internet happened a lot quicker than the printing press, due to the development of digital communication which comically, is due to the invention of the internet.

I also think, society now is very different to the society that existed back in "the Gutenberg era". From what I understand and what is greatly generalised, is that we are possibly more open minded, and maybe more understanding than they were in the past. This could explain the idea that we are "walking into the information age with our eyes open" because we do not question what the internet tells us, we just accept that is the truth. This very different response to something new could have a very different impact than the printing press and could also be the cause of the fast impact of the internet so far.

As there is no administrator of the internet, it means there is no control over the content: what is uploaded, who uploads it ect. Though the cloud has a lot of benefits such as not needing to carry storage hardware (USBs ect), it still poses a lot of security problems from fraud to pornogaphy accessible to children. Some believe that an administrator such as the Governement should control it, but I think the internet is to vast to control, and enforcing laws would be to hard to manage. And also why should one person's opinion be the one to control what the world can and cannot see?