The Internet :: essays research papers

Right now Im thinking almost the Internet, the all-pervasive medium through which Ive published my thoughts and work Ive make in my free time for several years now. Like mostly everyone else, I communicate with new(prenominal)s using the Internet, play games through it, read news, and learn about things. (Except, sadly, I am not convinced the ecumenical public is interested in learning.) And we be all familiar with the "dot com mania" and the insane full in the NASDAQ - and, sadly, the subsequent fall of the NASDAQ. People have been wondering exactly what was behind all of this, and if the Internet - which once seemed so enticing - is now bogus. "What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen exertion so that all of us may have more of this worlds goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities , lies through power" - Henry pass over Heres something which should not be news the entire .com insanity was a crock from the start Thats right - the entire New Economy was founded on delusions and misinformation all along. scarcely just as people were overzealous then, they are overly pessimistic now (at the time of this writing). The Internet is not intrinsically a crock. But the general public got a taste of what the Internet can do, and warped and distorted it into a magical cure-all for all of lifes problems. The Internet cannot produce material objects completely industry can. The Internet can near-instantaneously transport information from any location to any location, but it cannot transport atoms. And while information is fun and happy, many other things we enjoy (such as books (for now), pizza, and computers) are made of heavy, sluggish atoms. Throwing up a web site does not automatically mean instant wealth, nor does a chassis that ends in ".com". This ha s always been true, and will continue to be true (for a while...), but for a short time most everyone deluded themselves into believing the exact opposite. And regular technically knowledgeable people (such as myself, and many others who knew what the Internet was before everyone and his uncle came onto the scene) were caught up in the hysteria, because the Internet is indeed really cool, and it seemed it was the time when everyone was becoming cognizant of that fact too.