The paper is an objective view of the internet, showing both sides of Age discrimination on the internet, the shift in Power, the economic results of online shopping and working from home, as well as explaining delicate issues like pornography and racism. While it is objective, the paper is totally supportive of the internet, saying that if anything tragic happens it will be society's fault, how the internet affects us depends on how society uses the internet.
Internet Affected Society
This paper is totally encourages anonymity on the internet because he thinks it destroys the age-discrimination currently implemented in our society, but while suggesting this he doesn't explain that this anonymity encourages the lower end of society to come out and promote their dirty ways like racism, child pornography and neo-Nazism.
To discussing the issue "Balance of Power the paper is trying to explain that the power hierarchy is nothing like the one in the real world - people from lower classes can socialize with upper classes and vice versa. He even assertions that the hierarchy is inverted, where the "popular assembly" is at the base and the "nerds" run things because they have the information to do it. It is no surprise that they have this power because it is this group that invented, designed, built and improved the internet, until it was friendly enough to be used by the rest of society.
To discussing the "Online shopping" the paper explains how it is better for the consumer, but then explains that it will severely affect the work force. Online buying in Australia is being mostly finished by the "smart" assembly because they understand how the data scheme works so they trust it with their credit card details. The other assemblies are too shocked to do it because they understand how it works. Specialist businesses are the major businesses to offer online shopping, especially electronics shops or computer shops like Harvey Norman and Harris Technology.
The paper also discusses what it would be like to work from home saying that the environment of home is much better than an office, but it relies a lot on trust between employer and employee. Thead covering is why I believe working from home is only good for extremely small businesses that have been running for a long time where the workers can be trusted, and for exceedingly large businesses that can pay for to hire people to do random tests to make certain persons are doing their share of work. It is only possible for computer oriented occupations to be finished from home because it needs the internet to keep employees up to designated day with projects.
Because the internet is so "Open", occasionally it comprises very mature data or images, which may or may not be legal. In these determinants it is up to the guardians of a individual to make sure they don't stumble onto something ...