Book Report On The Future Of The Internet

The fourth considers the shift made, From ARPANET to Internet approaching defense and research. The fifth section covers The Internet in the Arena of International Standards. The final section, Popularizing the Internet, shows the beginning of the wide spread of the Internet but before Internet connectivity becomes popular at the personal level. All things considered, the book states the expansions in Internet history between 1959 and 1991, with some proceedings to 1994.

The internet has revolutionized the modern world like no other invention has before, except perhaps, electricity. The internet allows sharing and collaboration to take place between people on opposite sides of the globe. Vinton G. Cerf, often called the “Father of the Internet”, admits that when the original idea of an “intranet” was in its infancy, there was no possible way to imagine all of the ways we would come to use it (NDTV, 2013).

The author compares the difference from the past and the present and how the internet has changed not only himself, but others and the way that they are able to understand and focus due to the long-term use of the web. While comparing the past and the present the author gathers information from well know writers that feel the same way about the effects of the web. The author's choice of personal experiences, vivid imagery and analysis backed by research hook the reader and persuades them to believe that today's technology is causing mainly problems.

Today, society is affected by the many advances in technology. These advances affect almost every person in the world. One of the prevalent advances in technology was the invention and mass use of the Internet. Today more than ever, people around the world use the Internet to support their personal and business tasks on a daily basis. The Internet is a portal into vast amounts of information concerning almost every aspect of life including education, business, politics, entertainment, social networking, and world security. (idebate.com) Although the Internet has become a key resource in developing the world, the mass use of Internet has highlighted a major problem, privacy and the protection of individual, corporate, and even government

In Where Wizards Stay up Late, the Origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon explore the beginnings of the Internet. The authors show us how it was a computer-engineering firm that produced the original prototypes for "Arpanet," and how several very intelligent men made the Internet possible. The book is excellent in that it brings to the limelight many important people that played an important role in devising the Internet. In other words, therefore, this book is a history as well as a work of drama. It tells a very intriguing story of how the computer technology for the Internet was devised. In many respects, it is very much a "behind-the-scenes" kind of documentary.

The World Wide Web was first created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, under the philosophy that it would begin as, and remain, an “open and free” platform of expression. It was believed that a neutral [open] web could promote innovation and development of technologies in an environment where individuals’ speech and collaboration overpowered large corporations. Recently, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have jeopardized the open nature of the web by opposing net neutrality, the idea that “all data on the internet should be treated equally by corporations, such as internet service providers, and governments, regardless of content, user, platform, application or device.”

In the text, the author gives a historical overview of the internet. He tells us that the internet was not an overnight phenomenon and not a single person’s efforts. He gives us a timeline of the development of the internet and the degree of changes it went through to give us the internet that we have today.

The internet operates under what is called the “end-to-end principle.” This is where “features are implemented as close to the end points of the network as possible.”4 It is often described as a “dumb network.” Much like how a water system provides the same amount to all users through pipes regardless of what its used for, only the end user decides and controls how a “dumb network” is utilized. Some claim that this is a major reason that the internet was so successful. However, it is also pointed out that internet is already not “a level playing field,” because of the advantages of bigger companies who can afford more robust servers and high-bandwidth services.1

Its increasing importance has been recognized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which, through the Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP), has initiated a number of streams of work within the broad context of The Future of the Internet. (OECD, 2006)

Carr specifically is writing about the internet that has evolved over time. He claims that people are starting not to understand the readings. People use to read books and “go to libraries to look for research and now with a click of a button its at our finger tips.” He thinks people are just skimming through articles and books. He even goes on to say that his co-workers and fellow writers are started to skim.

According to Toffler (1980), the word was shaped by three unstoppable technological revolution. The first was the agricultural revolution and the second the Industrial Revolution. The third is the information revolution that brought the earth-shaking changes to our society and give a gorgeous brushstroke to people 's colorful life. In mid-15th century, people did not have access to mobile phone and internet, they can only write letter to transmit their miss (Toulet, 1995). With the development of technology and the appearance of internet, one of the 20th century 's greatest scientific and technological inventions,  we are in the information age and the knowledge is changing quickly (May, 2002:4). People can enjoy the convenient brought by technology in information. For example, people can communicate with their friends through mobile phone and internet regardless of how far away. In 2013, the number of internet users reached 3 billion (Internetworldstats, 2014). The technology that is a double sword has brought convenience to us, simultaneously has also brought privacy problems. In the first part of this essay, we will discuss the development and the definition of the information society. In second part of this essay we will consider benefits that come with the information age from economic, communication, risks recognization, politics and surveillance aspects. Moreover, the privacy problems and the

In the Andrew Blum "What is the Internet, really?" video, the audience is introduced to what the internet actually is. The narrator starts his speech talking about the way he felt about spending less time outside since he was spending more time in front of his computer screen. He talked about the way the internet has “no physical reality of its own” and how he struggled in making a connection between the real world and the internet. He also mentions a personal story about the day his internet broke and found out that a squirrel was “chewing on his internet”. He realized his internet was broken because the squirrel was chewing on the internet cables. He then states that the incident with the squirrel made him wonder what would happen if he

Since the internet is prominent in most households, libraries, schools, and business offices, the internet has become the primary way of communication and getting information. Security, data confidentiality, censorship, and privacy have become important issues related to these topics. The risks of modern technology are we have a constant evolution of a wide range of technological advances from software, hardware, viruses, malware, and surveillance. This is why it is so difficult to keep up to date.

The internet has spread like vines and has integrated itself into our daily lives. It is best known as a place for all to retreat to in search of information and socialization, free of government intrusion. Although mostly free from government involvement, some internet service providers have made attempts at net neutrality. Since the creation of the internet, many have questioned how they could regulate its content and persons online. We are still not completely sure on how to do such.

In today’s world 3 billion humans are on the internet but there are also 4 billion people that are not. In the beginning of my study on the future of the internet, I asked myself this question: is it possible that everyone could be online and globally connected? Then I asked myself how, if everyone is online, the future of the internet change the experience of everyday life? Looking back, the internet is still a relatively new phenomenon as it was first created back in the 1960’s by a computer scientist named J.C.R Licklider. He envisioned a network of computers, called the galactic network, which would allow humans to be able to share information instantly. Overtime this is how the internet developed, as many of these networks that shared