Blog 4-27

                                  The InternetRevolution

How the internet might bring us a new world.

 

The internet has changed our world, it has changed our lives in every way, I personally think that if we were to wake up tomorrow and the internet was not there; the world would freeze at least for some time. The internet has become an integral part of our ‘developed’ world; it is constantly interacting with our daily lives from something as simple as making grocery purchases to pumping gas.

 

The blogosphere, which was brought to us and made possible by the internet is just one o the many tools which the internet provides to make our lives easier and also makes our world a smaller one by allowing us the ability to communicate immediately. Everyday the internet keeps getting better and better, I remember the days when I still had to wait for my old phone modem to connect to the internet which took ages comparing it to now. Now I have my ‘phone’ connected through the internet, through a service called Vonage and the cost of that is considerably less than what it used to cost.

 

Our world has just gotten smaller and faster, globalization and world wide integration is becoming everyday more and more likely or better said, possible.

 

For the future I envision a world which is smaller due to the ease of communication thanks to the internet and other sources of communication, technology and even more importantly, information will reach to the furthest corners of the earth and we will all truly become, One World. In the even more distant future, if we don’t destroy ourselves right now, I foresee a world with no wars. This I think can be achieved because we will have instant access to video depicting the cruelty of war and the public will be able to pull in the rein on their respective governments.

 

Some might say that I am being unrealistic, and I will be the first one to back that counter claim, but its good to dream of a peaceful world. However, I must clarify what it is that I am saying, or what I mean when I say that communication will bring us peace. Let me talk about the war that some have called the first televised war, the Vietnam War. It is believed by many in the political science that public opinion against the war was achieved because of television images arriving from
Vietnam which depicted the true nature of war, it brought a message; War is not romantic like most thought. This same thing will happened with the spread of technology which promotes immediacy like is the internet. I am not saying that it will be a perfect world, but at least a little bit better.

 

Prior to the use of color, and live images from areas of conflict, many countries took advantage and went all over the world causing havoc without their citizens knowing exactly what was going on. The people didn’t know exactly what the reason was for their country to invade another, I am not saying that has changed now, or at least to a great extent, but if people are able to see the reality of war in a more graphic way, they will be more driven to ask their government why.

 

I believe that if Mr. Chavez was doing what he is doing right now only 50 years ago, the
US would have already invaded claiming that
Venezuela was a threat to the
US. But because we have immediate access to information, we can determine or at least the better part of the
US population that the claims being made by the government are lies.

Hopefully the internet will be put to good use although I must admit, it does have its downsides and it is not perfect. But I think we should keep a positive attitude and continue looking to making the future a better one for all of us and generations to come, enjoy.