The World Wide Web Ten Years From Now

In the next ten years the World Wide Web will change drastically. Just as the Web has changed significantly since it popularity started to grow in the early ninety’s, the web will evolve more and more people each day. Millions turn to the web at a greater extent each passing hour, as connections and new technology’s reach the rural areas of the planet. Wireless access will be global, new people with new ideas flood the networks with invention and a breath of creativity.

One thing that will be affected is our home life in general. “The internet capable devices will be pervasive - imagine cars with internet capability, appliances that send you updates when they need service, fridges that are intelligent enough to help you manage an online shopping list. You’ll be able to manage your entire home from a browser (centresource.com).” This in general will be extremely helpful and more economic. Are major appliances, are home temperature settings and even our food will be able to last longer and be maintained and updated effectively with a few clicks.

The Web overall will be able to reach virtually any device and connect the people in which possess them closer to each other. Which brings me to my next point, “all this will enable more peer-to-peer interaction outside of “at the desk” scenarios: you’ll be “social networking” while you’re driving, walking down the street, shopping, etc. (centresource.com).” Also “there will be no single social network - instead, social connectivity will happen through any website. You’ll have a single profile that will be recognized on any site, and allow you to engage in conversation there, share content, and make comments almost anywhere, which is then fed into your profile. It’s like Facebook Connect, just much larger and pervasive (centresource.com).”

The list of advances on the web in the next ten years could go on and on forever. Millions of new ideas are thought up each hour on how to bring the world closer together. Hopefully this will spawn a new era of reason and as we continue to be informed and educated and learn new things about each person’s human experience we may find a way to co-exist without quarrel and war. 

Should the World Wide Web Be Regulated?

             The Internet, since its birth, has been a source, an instrument, and a gateway of economic and technological growth. It has given billions of people a voice to speak their minds freely, a way to share life’s events with each other, a way to educate the uneducated and a way to bring the world together more than any other invention since the printing press. But one of the major reasons for its success has been its openness to the entire world. 

             There has been really no restrictions on how or what content is being entered into it daily. Until the governments in several different countries has gave their two cents on what content can be previewed in the last few years. Some rules that needed to be adapted are obvious like the file sharing of copyrighted material, even though half the world dose enjoy a free mp3s on a daily basis, this has greatly decreased the growth of the worlds economy.

              In my opinion there are some things that need to be done for our countries economic crisis involving the World Wide Web but everything else should be giving the same freedoms that has been giving in the past. So much has changed since the Internet exploded onto the world seen. Much more for the better than the worst. I think we need to continue with what has already been a so successful. Adding rules and regulations will only slow and may even stop the millions of new ideas, art, and self-expression that flows through the web like blood through our veins. 

Influence of American Media

  Our culture runs through the media like blood through veins. It shows the true expression that makes this country so beautiful and unique. Because America is the melting pot of all ethnicities and cultures, we as individuals work to add our own flare and our own flavor to the masses. Music, movies, and television all show these expressions, strengthening or separating the glue that all bonds us. People in this country react differently to each genre of the media, but all media spreads the same basic message. All send a message of love, a message of self worth, a message of concern, and a message of hate or fear. We need all these messages to function as human beings.           

            Since I was young boy, music and television have influenced my life. I remember the songs my mom and dad sang in the car on the way to my grandparents each summer. They were songs filled with adoration and excitement. My parents were a product of the 50s and 60s, expressing the Love and moral values of the period. The music they listened to and the television they were exposed to helped mold and shape their lives. Just as all Americans, each movie we watched together or song we sang linked and gave us that love that we share today.

             Memories such as these play a big part of every Americans life. Our culture shines even though we might not even notice it. Songs we sing, movies we share, and all are signs of an ever-growing, open-minded style. Since, its birth, America has shared its emotions and views to the rest of the world through its artistic hue and spectrum, leading the way for others to follow.