Internet

It has been said that one of the hardest things to explain about today's society if someone was dropped in a time machine from 1914 is the following: "I have a tool that fits in my pocket that contains all the information in the world and I use it to look at funny videos of cats and quarrel with people I don't know." Has the availability of all this information and the interconnectedness of practically the whole global population offered by the Internet led to mostly good or mostly bad consequences?

1950

Development of electronic computers

Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf

publish an article with ideas of generalized coordination of computers

1974

The academic world starts using internet

1980s

World Wide Web is launched

1991

We pass 1 billionweb-pages

2000

4,4 billion peopleare using

the Internet

2013

- Depression

- Cyber-bullying

- Jealousy and obsession

http://ansonalex.com/infographics/internet-addiction-statistics-2012-infographic/

”The Internet runs on love”

Has the availability of all this information and the interconnectedness of practically the whole global population offered by the Internet led to mostly good or mostly bad consequences?

Conclusion

• Pros > Cons• Carefulness = great possibilities

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

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