The Internet : A Philosophical Inquiry

The internet was a promising technological advancement designed to make the world’s information more accessible and the public’s participation in government more feasible. However, according to John Dvorak in his column titled “The False Promises of the Internet,” the stability and freedom of the internet is on a downward trend. He conveys this idea with the use of his negative connotation and his appeal to ethos.

The author’s study of the Internet’s genesis makes systematic links between the technological development and its organizational, social, and cultural environment. There are many available histories on the Internet, in print and online. Most are well-documented information on technology and its history. Some mention the fundamental concepts of communication, information, and knowledge. Abbate's work, however, goes beyond ordinary facts and her findings are most revealing.

A person up to date in today's society must acknowledge the importance and the parcticality of the internet. Just as in other areas of society, personal freedoms are stretched to the very limit on this modern invention, raising isuues in regards to what type of information the internet should be allowed to broadcast. Since its inception, the internet has spawned overnight millionaires, served as the new information medium, and even played host to some heinous crimes. The topic of greatest concern though, is in how the people legislate the division between what is obscence and what is allowable. The way that these issues are dealt with will shape the very form in which the internet and other

Had there been no internet, the earth would have been a better place to live in with increased peace and happiness. The internet has not only deteriorated the social structures, norms and civilization, it has also had effected people’s day to day life. A social network through internet has created a lot of problems in the modern society. In the article “Friending, Ancient or Otherwise”, Wright argues how there has been a shift in communication between the individual and the society. It has corrupted the English language and degraded the overall educational qualities. Internet also helps students plagiarize materials. Despite of its some usefulness in the modern world, internet and social

Throughout the years the impact of the internet on society has evolved in many different ways. Since the creation of the internet its purpose in society has also evolved in various ways. At its simplest the internet is a tool that can be used for communication. As many of us know the internet is a flexible tool unlike any others that one can shape to fulfill their vision. In recent years the internet has emerged as a major source for information entertainment, and news, and other various means of communication. The internet has revolutionized the way in which the media operates. The media uses the internet as a tool to get information to the masses. Before the internet

In Esther Dyson’s “Cyberspace: If You Don’t Love It, Leave It”, the existence of the internet is seen as potentially dangerous to today’s society. Dyson insists that the internet was once a sanctuary for tech savvy individuals such as gamers and professionals like engineers. The author focuses on the negative websites and communities that are often found offensive to the majority. She thinks the World Wide Web harbors a lot of power. This power can be accessed and conquered easily by most of the population. According to Dyson, responsibility is the key to changing the future (295). Her argument is convincing but slightly unrealistic. The internet seems to be growing into a whole other alternate universe. Society’s rapidly growing technology industry will only be harder to regulate. Most people will do what they want, when they want especially when it comes to the internet.

In the present day, the development of internet causes considerable changes in social relations and people lifestyle. Internet users spend most of their life online. One of the recent trends is the development of social networks, which encourage the creation of realistic communities. In such a situation, the question concerning the impact of Internet on human being, especially on human brain and behavior arises. In this concern, views on the impact of Internet vary consistently. On the one hand, Internet is recognized as a valuable intermediate, which helps users to share and broadcast information easily. But, another view on the impact of internet, that Internet is noticed as a threat to the social life and identity of individuals

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.

With the introduction of the Internet, there has been a global shift in our human culture. A profound, intense change in which every one of us has been impacted by, and one that has never been so pervasive or immediate as the one we have seen grow with each passing day. Now, the Internet was conceived with the purest of notions, where the intentions were good and the purpose was true: a glorified, all-encompassing systematic collection of the world’s expressions, where ideas, thoughts, reforms, and opinions can circle the globe, for conversations to be sparked and a global culture to be established. However, through the passage of time, certain facets of the Internet have become polluted, perverse even, where the malicious and ill willed could

The internet itself now plays an important role in our everyday lives, and has revolutionised both society and education. Following the invention of electronic computers in the 1950’s, the main format of the internet (that we still use today) was invented in 1978, before going global in the 1980’s. Primarily, the invention of the internet is important, due to how it revolutionised technology, and in such a short amount of time. Thanks to the internet mobile phones, laptops, and developed social media have all been invented, following the global demand during the 1980’s. As well as this, the invention of the internet has benefitted society due to the new technology that has sped up general tasks around the home, the spread of news and political topics, and the time used for revision, particularly with students. Just like the Civil Rights movement, without the internet, our modern society would be very

In the end, while Lyon and Hafner give us an entertaining story regarding how the Internet was discovered, we are still left wondering about what effect the Internet is actually having. True, we see all of the hard work that occurred behind the scenes in the making of the Internet in this book, but now the question must be asked: where does the Internet take us? This is a very important question in the context of where technology takes our culture, and takes humanity in general. Indeed, every piece of technology has an effect on the people within the culture. There is, after all, certain political and social consequences to the progress in technology. In his essay "Do

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 influence of language in framing an issue is demonstrated in the 2009 article, which does not mention the word paedophile, nor describes Newman as a predator. Instead, the report is framed to emphasis the unregulated nature of the internet. Newman created, “a cyberspace alter-ego” with, “no more substance than a dream,” moreover his “internet construct” was part of a “complex web of false identities” (Fewster, 2009). Thus, the focus is shifted to the uncontrollable, unknowable nature of the internet, rather than the ‘evilness’ of the perpetrator. The 2010 report also frames the internet as a problem by making the aspects of Newman’s online presence more salient or applicable in the mind of the reader. “The 50-year-old paedophile was logged onto another chat room when police arrived to arrest him in his house in Victoria”, had “up to 200 fictitious internet identities he had created to […] have sex with young girls”, and “after murdering, upon [his] return home [he] appeared to have continued on with [his] internet communications with young girls as if nothing has happened” (Dornin, 2010). The attribution of responsibility shifts expands to include both Newton’s unrepentance, and the unregulated nature of the internet.

The first decade of the second millennium has seen a technological and communicational boom, something especially seen in everything which is inside or related to the internet. The internet and its facilities has become a very big part of the human of today as it is useful not only to individual people but to groups of people.

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