The world wide web is one of the most impressive and astounding things that humans have accomplished. The internet completley runs our lives right now. Everything that has to be done currently with COVID forces the world to be placed on the internet platform together. The network that it has created brings everyone together and makes it so much easier to communicate not face to face.

Technology has changed the world so much just in the past decade. Some changes have been very positive and some changes has been very negative. The Internet exposes the entire world. This is great because you can find out anything you want to know by just typing www. This can also be a very scary thing, however. Once the Internet started blowing up and people started realizing how much you can see, privacy became a really talked about issue and not only did this freak people out but it made people know that the internet wasn’t something to mess around with, you have to be very careful. I have had the internet my whole life. I don’t know any different. My parents however were grown adults when technology really started kicking off and the internet blew up. That must’ve been so weird at first from not having any sort of contact like that, to then being able to find out anything just by typing. Now, we are going to school through the internet. People are working their jobs from the internet. The most successful entrepreneuers are mostly online on the internet. It has completley changed the standards of norm. You can live from the internet.

Our screening this week was The Digital Nation. It really talked about the truth of technology and the internet. It first aired on February 2nd, 2010. Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff are the two main people on the show. They really go into detail about the risks and possibilites of the internet. USing other people experiences and stories to break down what is happening online. It is such an advanced and complex concept that people don’t even try to understand, but there are things we need to know about the web. I really liked the film, it really opened my eyes to what is really behind the www. We are adapting and moving towards the internet world slowly as a whole but it also does talk about how bad it potentially can be for you. There is so much lost time spoent on the internet and online. It is one thing to be making money and being very productive and efficient on the web, but there are also people (mostly younger generations) that just oprefer to be online rather than do anything else, problems usually occur from that rather it would be educational or social, those are important times in a kids life. Too important to be spent on a screen. There are even third world games online where it is just a simulation to pull you from reality. An example that mostly everyone knows is SIMS. SIMS is fun but the truth is, it just a virtual reality that doesn’t benefit you in anyway. Internet will always be apart of our world from now on, it has davanced too much to ever decline again. We just can’t let it control us.