Week 11 EOC: The Future of The Internet

The Internet being 40 years old has changed drastically over the course of the last ten years. In its beginning stages the Internet was not widely used or even heard of to many. In the past decade we have become more exposed to the Internet as companies and individuals have taken to the Internet to provide us with the ultimate shopping experience or communication portal. For the most part, the world is online. When the Internet first began there was no idea that we’d be able to pay our bills online, talk with a relative thousands of miles away or have to worry about our personal and private information being stolen from Internet databases. Our modern Internet has given birth to a fear for our safety and privacy paving the way for societies to adapt legislation geared at the virtual world. Today we are presented with the possibilities of the Internet allowing us to be virtually present in more places than one at any given moment. The Internet is allowing us to share information from all over the world to develop technology that would have once taken years to come to. "I think by accident we're going to stumble on conscious computers that have feelings and look at you and understand how you're doing," he said. "My iPhone has almost all the senses I have except taste and smell. It has an eye and an ear and it can feel when I am touching it and it can feel when it is being moved. It even knows where in the world it is from GPS. Even I don't know that. I wake up and say "am I home?"." says Steve Wozniak about the future of the Internet. (Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks about future of the web during visit to Whistler: Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun). The future of the Internet will be grand but will call for a sacrifice of even more “old world ways” as it will allow for the digital age to flourish into something bigger.

Illicit: The Scope Of How The Internet Is Used For Illegal Activity

The internet has brought with it a tremendous amount of great advances in the way we're able to communicate and learn about what's going on in the other parts of the world. The internet has allowed us the freedom to have this world of information at our fingertips. It was to be expected that with such a great advance in our culture some bad would come along as well. While the average internet user is online for normal things like surfing, online game play, and social networking there is a vast amount of users online for the sole purpose of carrying on illicit activity. With all the great achievements the Internet allows comes with it a handful of things we wish the Internet would've never been invented for. Rule 34, if you can think it it exists in all shapes and forms. The Internet mirrors the real world providing a venue for thieves, pedophiles and drug addicts. With our personal information required on the majority of websites we provide the prize to an army of hackers who turn our information into stolen money and goods. Illegal drugs can be purchased on sites that can prove deadly buyers. "The International Narcotics Control Board also described North America as continuing to be "the world's largest illicit drug market" in 2010; parts of Europe as the homes of industrial scale cannabis factories; and growing poppy cultivation in West Asia." Illegal Drugs Sold Online Via Social Media: Huffington Post