The Internet has been the fastest evolving technology this world has ever seen with powerful expansion within the past forty years. As the Internet continues to grow, there are many controversies on the subject of whether it is helping or hurting us people and whether there is a future or an end. |
 "The modern economy runs primarily on information, and the Internet is by orders of magnitude the greatest information mechanism ever invented" (article.businessinsider.com). |
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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ As long as the Internet meets the needs of its users and the device producers that carry the Internet comply to the accessibility standards, there is hope that the Internet will be a staple in the future. Being a vast majority of the population of the world connects to the Internet, the Internet has lesser of a chance to be demolished; too many people rely on it. With technologies, devices, and application productions on the rise, it helps gaurantee that the Internet is on a path to future success. Even though there are some people who wish to stop the growth of the Internet or completely erase it, it does not look like that is ever going to take place. This world has become very use to adaptation, and even though the prices of everything are continually rising, especially computer devices, the world will forever find a way to adapt to that, leaving no question of whether or not the Internet is going to be of service in future years. “Society is becoming conditioned into dependence on technology in ways that, if that technology suddenly disappears or breaks down, will render people functionally useless.” -Richard Forno, cybersecurity expert(elon.edu). _______________________________________________________________________________________________ References: Dixon, Chris. "Predicting the Future of the Internet is Easy." Business Insider Jan. 2011: 13. Google. Web. 15 Apr. 2012 "The 2012 Survery." Imagining the Internet 2012 Google. Web. 16 Apr. 2012
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