Internet
This is a nice invention. And considering the www alone, the main thing is that it is flashy, colorful, icons are blinking and it cantalk to you. Besides that, it is fast and easy, of course. It claims to be a powerful tool for exchanging and gathering information which will change the world in the near future. And probably it will. The enthusiastic prophets of this tool stress that the amount of information available on the web is already immense and quickly growing, and access is getting cheaper, faster and more widely available (financially and mentally) to all. And I'm asking: So what? First of all, too much information means no information. If I read one newspaper I can learn something. With twenty newspapers I can hardly read the titles and if I'm not looking for anything in particular I'm lost. Similarly, browsing the web without a very specific subject in mind (as the majority of our fellow humans do) turns this tool into a horrific waste of time. And the vast information stored here is useless, as if it wasn't there. Secondly, to get anything interesting or informative from the web, no matter what the subject, one must know its exact location, else one is compelled to dive into a muddy flood of *censored*
conceivable to include such algorithms in the web, the possible outcome does not look that enthusiastic to me. It looks like a There is one more aspect of the internet and the www in particular which I would like to draw your attention to. Some years ago when this whole business was starting, one of the main advantages to be stressed was the decentralization of information. (telephone) or one-to-many in "one way flow" (radio, TV). and from all our fellows citizens' eyes and ears as well. These are the senses of the Being. - I don't really know what to say
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Approximate Word count = 1243
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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