E1 Unit 2

“The Internet was originally designed to provide people access to each other and information. If a resource is inaccessible because of coding problems or incompatibility with certain browsers or special-needs users, it fails to meet even the minimum requirements

E2 – Evaluation of the decisions made in response to opportunities and/or challenges specific to the research processes

Income inequality is the unspoken truth of American life. Millions of Americans live in poverty while the minority holds the majority of the wealth. This problem has become more severe in recent years, with the wealth gap increasing exponentially. While innovation drives economics in the free market, recent innovations have caused the wealth gap to become skewed. Broadband Internet is one particular innovation that has spurred economic growth but has hurt the lower class. Broadband Internet can be defined as “768 Kbps download and 200 Kbps upload” (Dunbar). Although there are many varying classification of broadband Internet, this definition will be utilized for the purposes of this paper. The non-adoption of broadband Internet by those living

The internet and the invention of improved technology are growing rapidly. It allowed us to do complex jobs without having to spend as long as we had to by doing it manually. The internet is a vast source, it involves many people working together to create an opportunity for everyone to get easy and fast information without having to pick up a book. With a click of a mouse button we have tons of information right in front of our computer screen. So is having easy access and having improved technology doing us harm or being beneficial to us?

What does one picture when you hear the word “dystopia”. Does one act as if it is the same as our modern life. Or, quite opposite, does one feel they are very different. If oneself thought either of these things, neither of them are completely wrong. Our modern-day society may be on a slight downfall, but the effects of a dystopia are far worse than our reality.

A big reason why keeping net neutrality is important is that it allows free access to information. The internet is full of sources that help educate people all across the nation.

While some people can afford to pay extra for a faster and less censored internet, there also exists those who can not. Because of this, people with a low socioeconomic status will have less access to the internet than those of a higher economic status. If this were to happen, not only would we see people in the middle class have less and less access to the internet, but we would also see less and less people escaping the lower and middle class. Many people use the internet to showcase their special abilities, their creativity, and their own unique abilities, and without the internet, these talented people would never go viral and would never end up utilizing their abilities to help them

The Internet has negative and positive impacts, it depends how we will make use of it; the negative effects can be like a computer virus, internet theft, pornography, and dating sites, however the internet can be used for good purposes. Internet helps people to communicate and be connected with everyone all around the world by mail, Skype, Facebook, Google, twitter, and other social network apps and web sites; I personally believe technology benefits everyone and we are depending on this platform to better our lives in a positive way.

As stated in the AOW article “, Nearly every single family that has enrolled in Internet Essentials say it has improved their children’s grades—an unimpeachable validation of the importance of home broadband.” This quote from the article is proof that Internet access can radically change lives! Who knows, these family’s children might’ve been failing their classes just because they didn’t have internet access. The quote also shows how important internet is in not only our daily life, but our educational lives as

Network neutrality has been debated for years now. Questions have risen such as “Should internet users communicate online freely?” and “Should internet provide unbiased information to users?” The answer to these questions is yes. I agree with Julius Genachowski in his speech “Preserving a Free and Open Internet: A Platform Innovation, Opportunity, and Prosperity” that net neutrality, or open internet, provides many valuable benefits for the internet community and for our society as a whole.

Many years ago you wouldn't have ever thought we’d be here deciding whether the internet should be paid for depending on the different sites you went to. But as we know technology has grown bigger and bigger over time. So some people think that we should have to pay. Also speaking there are some people who think differently.

There are places all over the world that are without the luxury of the internet. People have been trying to give those without access to the internet to those without it. One person who has been trying to achieve that goal is Mark Zuckerberg. Him and his team have been building a drone that they call Aquila, which will grant people without access to the internet, access to it. Their goal is to “bring the internet to all 7 billion people on Earth, regardless of their income or where they live” (theverge.com).

Do you have any cell phone or laptop? If the answer is yes, you might be a part of “internet user” on the world. Internet gives human a lot of convenience to do almost everything. Teachers use internet to help students for their works, let alone most of jobs at today need to use internet to work on it. According to A Day Of The Internet, 78.6% of people use internet in North America, that means in North America, 417.6 million people have been using internet. Internet becomes a part of our life gradually. However, internet also brings something that are negative. It let some people get internet addiction, myopia and even let human become lack thinking. But should people stop using internet just because it may be bad to them? Of course not.

Additionally, the Internet has benefited the world by connecting users to billions of pieces of information from universities, libraries and databases around the world. No matter where you are in the world as long as you have internet access you can learn anything you need to know about a topic in a matter of minutes. My work on this argument is an example of how the internet is beneficial to all who use it. Without access to the internet, this would have been much more labor intensive. It would have required many evenings away from home spent in a library doing research. Instead, I was able to do all of my research from work and home, which allowed for less time away from my son.

“Today, Internet is not a luxury, it is a necessity” (Barrack Obama). The internet has