History of the Internet

In our modern day society, individuals are actively on the internet, exposing themselves in every aspect unknowingly. We are oblivious to who is watching and collecting our information. Many of us are oblivious to how far the government is willing to go to uncover any secrets or imminent threats. In Peter Singer’s essay, Visible Man, we explore how we have currently encircled ourselves in an environment that calculates our every choice and action because we constantly reveal our information.…

In the futuristic, dystopian novel, Feed by M. T. Anderson, a world is depicted in which people have the internet, known as “feeds,” installed into their brain. In the book, the topic of knowledge, or lack thereof, is an important one. As people have an infinite, immediate access to information in their heads, they do not see education as a priority, and consequentially become less intelligent as the feed becomes more widely used. Within the first few pages, the reader can already see how…

Marshall Poe, history professor and author of The Hive, and Thomas L. Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention, discuss two different but similar topics: Wikipedia and global supply chains. Both of these collaborative paradigms come with consequences that can be either positive or negative. In the world today, collaborative paradigms generate both positive and negative ramifications in the way that people, businesses, and countries all over…

grasps. Nicholas Carr has written several books such as “IT Doesn’t Matter” and “Does IT Matter?” and he has his own blog in which he criticizes our supposed growing dependency on technology. He had different work such as “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” in which he was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer. Carr wrote the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” from The Atlantic 2008 July/ August edition where he explains that having information be so easily retrievable is…

on media such as television, internet, entertainment and many more. They are frequently keeping us company in our daily routine. Last 5 decade, people not very depend much about media because at that time we still lack of technology. People more prefer to use traditional way do something. Development of mass media make it fascinating field of investigation, and there are more and more schools and universities across the globe which concentrate on mass media, it history, its future prospects, and…

Tim Berners-Lee is a name unfamiliar to most. He is the inventor of perhaps one of the greatest innovations of our time that we use frequently and on a daily basis; the World Wide Web (Internet). When Tim Berners-Lee first visualized the concept of the World Wide Web, he had a pretty solid plan for how he wanted it to work. His vision for social change and individual creativity far exceeded his own expectations. Berners-Lee’s overall intention for the development of the Web was to advance…

Throughout the history people have used maps in order to locate themselves and their points of interest. Instruments like compass, hourglass and quadrant assisted sailors to navigate and arrive at a particular location. Navigation and positioning, as most fields of life, have advanced and improved since then, and at the present are easier than ever thanks to the Internet and sophisticated technological devices. Global Positioning System, or better known as GPS, is the United State of America’s…

of forms like sound, videos, images, graphics, and text that we use in our daily life. It helps us a lot as an example now we use multimedia in education process t to deliver a scientific information in a simple way, which could anybody receive. History: The newspaper was the first mass communication medium to employ Multimedia, they use the text, images and graphics. After that, they start to use radio waves, in 1901. At the beginning it used for telegraph, radio, and now it’s the main way for…

around technology. This is most likely because technology has become and is continuing to become more portable and accessible as time passes-- from personal computers to laptops, landline telephones to handheld cellular phones, dial-up internet to wireless internet access, and bulky gaming consoles which hold only one game to smaller hand-held devices that contain a wide range of games. Aside from becoming more portable and accessible, technology has…

YouTube. Internet usage has made modern lives easier in regards to social media by keeping in contact with friends and family. Benefits of the Internet include search engines and websites that keep one up to date on news stories, and data, as well as email accounts that help with business and organization. When one thinks of the possible fears in the world, common fears include spiders, heights, and crimes that can be committed against them. The dangers can be associated with everyday Internet…