How Internet Shaped The World
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Back then when I was at home, my father used to tell me stories about his childhood. It was the time when kids still play outdoor games such as hop-scothch, hide-'n-seek, congklak. The time when kids walk far distances just to get to school. The times when communicating with someone would mean waiting months, even years just to get a mail back. Now days, the world has went on a revolutionary time since The Internet was born. The Internet is a massive interconnected network which has really changed the way human lives. Some of the changes includes the way people get entertained, how they obtain knowledge, and how it further speeds up the scientific progress.
Entertainment now days is highly influenced by the network Internet has made. It has introduced the world with many different cultures and habits. Sudden music “boom” and viral actions happen as a monthly basis, weekly even. Social media and online games has stayed real close to the youth, while adults may find online newsfeeds and e-shopping as time-fillers.
The next aspect is the way internet changes how people gain knowledge. The World Wide Web, known as the famous WWW has offered many means of learning through it’s vast collection of videos, e-books and online courses made by other internet users. One from a literature background could now easily learn how to hack a car or build a computer just with the touch of a click. Boring text books can now be replaced by the more interesting interactive learning medias. Studying in classes doesn’t need to be literally done, but simply through online classes via Skype or Google Hangouts. Learning has now turned into a very cheap and affordable thing, yet not losing it’s quality in any way.
The last part is how internet speed up the scientific progress. As mentioned earlier, the interconnectivity of the internet has really eased the way people communicate, especially within the scientific domain. It has connected scientists from all around the globe, enabling them to share and collaborate. Papers and new findings are spread fast across the network. To mention some of them are the Human Genome Project, The Foldit Game which gave insight to the reproduction of HIV, and also National Geographic website which provides many information of the innovations human has made.
Despite the many benefits internet has brought, it also brings it’s very dark-sides. Some of them are the individualistic culture that it builds, crimes such as internet fraud to stolen identities, and also the shaping of a literally less moving society because of the very ease it brings in many human aspects.
The internet has made it’s many good changes and some dark-sides to the human culture, yet it is an inevitable process. The rapid changes it makes, really depicts how we always revise and keep on learning. It has become the figure of our 21st civilization.
Entertainment now days is highly influenced by the network Internet has made. It has introduced the world with many different cultures and habits. Sudden music “boom” and viral actions happen as a monthly basis, weekly even. Social media and online games has stayed real close to the youth, while adults may find online newsfeeds and e-shopping as time-fillers.
The next aspect is the way internet changes how people gain knowledge. The World Wide Web, known as the famous WWW has offered many means of learning through it’s vast collection of videos, e-books and online courses made by other internet users. One from a literature background could now easily learn how to hack a car or build a computer just with the touch of a click. Boring text books can now be replaced by the more interesting interactive learning medias. Studying in classes doesn’t need to be literally done, but simply through online classes via Skype or Google Hangouts. Learning has now turned into a very cheap and affordable thing, yet not losing it’s quality in any way.
The last part is how internet speed up the scientific progress. As mentioned earlier, the interconnectivity of the internet has really eased the way people communicate, especially within the scientific domain. It has connected scientists from all around the globe, enabling them to share and collaborate. Papers and new findings are spread fast across the network. To mention some of them are the Human Genome Project, The Foldit Game which gave insight to the reproduction of HIV, and also National Geographic website which provides many information of the innovations human has made.
Despite the many benefits internet has brought, it also brings it’s very dark-sides. Some of them are the individualistic culture that it builds, crimes such as internet fraud to stolen identities, and also the shaping of a literally less moving society because of the very ease it brings in many human aspects.
The internet has made it’s many good changes and some dark-sides to the human culture, yet it is an inevitable process. The rapid changes it makes, really depicts how we always revise and keep on learning. It has become the figure of our 21st civilization.
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