INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY HAZZARDS

Internet And Technology Hazzards

Internet And Technology Hazzards

Internet and Soceity

In our modern society, technology has impacted our lives in almost every aspect imaginable. Our life style has become one of the new eras, dealing substantially with strands of new technology each day. If you would stop for a moment and graze upon memories from your relative past, you too can see what an impact technology has had, as well as the evolution it has undertaken. Ten years ago people could not have imagined how different their lives would be. Today many households contain at least one personal computer. The simplest of things have all changed on account of newer, better, faster and more efficient forms of advanced technology.

A primary focus can be taken alone on the impact computers have had in our changing world. But I as a student would prefer to narrow the scope even further, as to analyze the impact the Internet has had upon people and their lives.It is safe to assume that almost everybody has heard about the Internet, and many have experienced it. The Internet is a conglomeration of worldwide networks linked together, which we as users have public access to. The very beginning of the Internet consisted of four main computers linked together, which they called the ARPANET (Shelly-Cashman, 2008).

The U.S. Department of Defense funded this initial network. These computers where nothing like the Internet we know of today, they simply transferred information in a very crude fashion, but still it was the beginning. The main goals of this first network were to create a system of linked computers across an area of land, which would be run even if one of the four computers malfunctioned. The second purpose was to allow scientists to share knowledge and data across the given area of land (Shelly -Cashman, 2008. Today the Internet ranges across the globe, containing information far beyond that of which it s creators ever imagined. Originally the Internet was suppose to contain only that information concerning the sciences, but as it evolved, the entertainment purposes of the users became noticeable. To date, the Internet contains information on almost any subject, place, etc. (Waggoner, A. Gloria, 1996)

Advantages of the Internet are its speed, capacity and low cost. These very characteristics are the ingredients to the reformation of our society, as technology advances, people have become more eager to receive the most possible, in the least amount of time for the lowest amount of cost. The Internet has allowed our world not only to expand, but the Internet has added some unique twists to the world we now live in.

Twenty years ago, if you needed to get background information on a particular topic for school, work or leisure, you had to do it at a library, or similar facility, which only allowed you access during their business hours. Today society has entered the Information Superhighway. This name is commonly associated with the Internet, as it is the beginning of something that ...