The internet could be the most valuable invention that was made in the modern age. With the force of the web individuals basically can do anything. From learning how to cook to building a car. The possibility is endless. The modernization of the internet can have positive and negative effects on the world. The modernization of the web can have positive and negative consequences on the world. It is sure in light of the fact that it gives everyone the power to access any information, that they need in second. In any case, it is contrary since individuals start to get limited focus and just focus on the things they need to see as opposed to seeing the full picture. To begin with, The Loneliness of the Interconnected is an essay on how the internet …show more content…
The author begins his argument about the internet by comparing it to the Speakers Corner. But the internet is essentially endless amount of audience at all times. With the power of the internet a cult can expand exponentially. It is easier to set up groups of likeminded people. He provides an example about a fake disease website made people believe that the disease exists. Even though, it was proven that the disease was fake. People still believed that it was real. The narrowmindedness of the people transferred over to the media. The internet increased our choices on what people see. When people have more specific option on what to choose, they often skip over the broader things. To accommodate to that TV network start narrowcast. They focused one group of people and aired what they wanted to watch. This gave them a constant fan base even though it lost the other group. When people keep seeing what they want to see, it becomes very hard for them to agree with the views of the group. “If you have a steady diet of items form Fox News and The Drudge Report, your belief that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen will be perfectly safe.” (Seife, 299). News websites like CNN.com, BBC.com monitors, what kind of things people look at and then when they visit the website next time, website shows, what they want to see. This cause to limit people from learning new things …show more content…
The author provides clear explanation on the issue at hand, which is how the internet make isolated or close-minded. Now days, everybody has a way to be connected to the worldwide web. The issue at hand affects everybody in the world. Whether, someone is 14-year-old or much older a 24-year-old. The author started the essay with giving examples about how people so closely connected to their beliefs, that they aren’t willing to change it by any means. Then he starts writing about the major issue in this essay; which is the internet. The author thinks that internet makes people more isolated. Then he provides the reader with reasoning behind his claims. Seife writes that, internet solves the audience issue, because the worldwide web is endless. Anybody can be reached from anywhere from the planet. One of the example he uses is the twitter, in theory a tweet can be see everyone who uses twitter. The author also acknowledges the opposition views. He also agrees with it to some extent. The author does not use to any pathos in this essay. Much of it is fact-based and reasoning. So the usage of ethos and logos are present in this essay. The author uses an excellent job to cite his sources as well. The technique that author uses that to write this essay is that he started the essay with how people were close minded before and how then show how the internet had made it so much easier to become
We are now just one click away from buying a car or communicating with someone halfway across the world. “The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. ”("Internet Society."). Scientists and engineers like Roberts and Kleinrock worked very hard to put their ideas down on paper to describe this global communication through a network. The first form of the Internet was originally called ARPANET.
She effectively demonstrates that people are now capable of creating problems by sharing their opinions or altered information through the internet. She is not blaming the technology, but instead warning us, as people, to be careful as to what we believe or post for everyone to see because not everything on the internet is true. Her argument successfully used the story involving President Obama’s birth certificate after assuming his role in the White House. Who 's to say that the only reason I support her argument is because I already showed similar viewpoints to the
Sherry Turkle has quite an interesting view on today`s “wired” world and the concept of being alone together. Therefore, the author is clearly convinced that the world of technology has deprived us of some of the most basic social skills. Although technology can literally grant us unlimited access to the information of the world in which we live today, I too consider that technology does represent a danger on the way we use to socialize before and now. As a result, Turkle does a marvelous job of introducing her beliefs as well as what it could be consider strong evidence to convince her readers making her argument a reasoning sound. It is quite clear that the author showcases Ethos by displaying clear evidence on both areas; logos and ethos.
The world describes itself in anonymity. The online world blurs credibility with smooth-talking from behind the mask of a screen. “It has become appallingly obvious,” a certain quote reads, “that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Various sources credit this quote to Albert Einstein, yet if one delves deeper into the Internet in an attempt to find a solid source, they will discover that not one website can infallibly say that Einstein said that (cite QI). Fahrenheit 451 warns of technology’s evolution into a smudging, anonymous being.
Although placelessness is a problem, it does not have a solution because it is not very tangible considering the issue is unique to each individual and because our economic systems are too complex to aid the problem. It entirely possible to feel “placeless” in a very uniquely cultured area such as suburban England (mentioned in the article ‘Floating in America, or The Perils of Placelessness’ by Christie Rodgers) even if it has a strong sense of place, because placelessness is subjective; I could feel connected in a location where you do not, or you could see culture where I could not. Furthermore, in the modern era, with the internet, people can synthesize and connect with the communities in which they are most comfortable in, and therefore
This replaces communication with others, because it provides modern convenience, superficial pleasure and censorship to any controversial concepts. The image Ray Bradbury displayesd of how technology can alienate human beings will remain in thought with technological advances taking place in the
The internet has become one of the most breakthrough pieces of mass communication since its introduction in the late 80’s. It’s hard to imagine what the world would be like without the internet. Even communist countries like China provide internet; however, the government limits citizens from having access and blocking information sources. Even free countries, such as the United States, are questioning their own motives on censoring the internet. Censoring the worldwide web will have a negative effect because it is a violation of a person’s rights, causes websites to lose their educational and business value, and always results in the people retaliating.
One hundred years ago nobody heard about the news or current events from Facebook or the newest tweet. Until fairly recently the most up to date news had to be heard through the grapevine or read in a newspaper. Since the creation of the internet and the mass media that comes with it, information can now be spread all the way across the world in the time it takes to hit the enter button on a computer or phone and upload it to the internet. Some people think that this is a bad thing because so many things that are uploaded can be either false information or simply information that is misleading and could teach individuals the wrong thing. However, if mass media is used in the right way it can be beneficial to the accessibility of valuable information,
Clay Shirky, the author of “Does the internet make you smarter?” wrote about how ignorance has poisoned the internet with incorrect information. Not only does technology has its flaws, but so do books and novels dating back to the Protestant Reformation. Even though many people are against the internet Shirky reassures that if used correctly and appropriately, then it can become a very useful tool that can “tap our cognitive surplus”. The increased collaboration of technology is important to society for the reason that the internet is full of valuable knowledge that can be claimed very quickly and easily. Increased collaboration is absolutely a benefit.
He starts his argument by telling us the effect the internet has had on him and others he has come across. The internet has changed his train of thought and his ability to focus and concentrate. He believes our brains have been reprogramed over time to adjust to the speed and convenience of the internet. Our ability to retain and digest traditional media has also been compromised since we are used to receiving information so rapidly. This is a strong opening argument for his essay.
The media is a powerful thing and it controls our lives now more than ever, I know more people who get their news from “Twitter”, than an actual news channel it is quite ridiculous how much we believe. Nevertheless, there is useful information on this media or even important alerts.
Anybody can access it and feel free to express their opinion, a right that we tend to take for granted, but that many do not have around the world. For these people, the internet becomes a sort of sanctuary, a safe place to state freely their ideas. The internet represents what Cohen and Schmidt (Schmidt and Cohen, 2010) define as interconnected estate, therefore a virtual place where people can connect and collaborate to create an opportunity of growth and development for their own country. Connection and
It can be argued that the establishment if the internet and social networking sites somewhat negates the necessity of geographic proximity. Most scholars agree that online communities exist despite this missing aspect. Social bonds and support between members are just as present. Members are often involved in a common cause. More often than that the group is connected by a common interest like TV shows, movies, music or books.
Without the internet, what we do? What would the future look like? " The history of the internet begins with the developement of electronic computers in the 1950s" (music). Today the internet continues to grow, driven by ever greater amounts of online information, commerce, entertainment, and social networking. The internets takeover of the global communication landscape was almost instant in historical term: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, already 51% by 2000 and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.
The usage of the internet is as vital as it is fresh, different way of finding and posting information. The internet is used to find any sort of information for example like regarding health issues (Eastin 2001) How to overcome fear and many more. The internet has had and will always have a good positive contribution to our learning because it benefits us by improving our knowledge, good quality and credible sources of material which has made life easier for people generate good and quick information (Jonassen 2003). The usage of technology will keep developing as every year technology has some kind of way to impress the world (Heeks 2002).