The Internet..... the good, the bad, the ugly....

[T.H. Oughts]

So has an understated monster been built?

What has the internet done to your life?

What do you foresee for the future of the internet?

What is the worst internet experiance you have had?

 

[Wiggles]

So has an understated monster been built?
Scary! (I dunno)

What has the internet done to your life?
~Given me another form of entertainment, and way to meet new friends.

What do you foresee for the future of the internet?
~I'm thinking more people will use voice activated software, and we will all become big slobbering slugs. Better chat software, with better connections and a more real experience.

What is the worst internet experience you have had?
ICQ. And AOL. They're both concentrated evil. (And not the good kind either!)

 

[lovetoread]

So has an understated monster been built?

Yes

What has the internet done to your life?

I have learned that a job in the computer field is for me.

What do you foresee for the future of the internet?

More people will come on here,naive and innocent,and horror stories will abound.

What is the worst internet experiance you have had?

Getting freaky im's from unknown guys.

 

[MacCortz]

So has an understated monster been built?

Afraid so, and yet we must free it and live with it and try to use it for good and not be overly addicted and misuse it like many, including myself have.

What has the internet done to your life?

At periods it has captured parts of my life... it has provided entertainment, needed services, education and many great things. However, I do miss use it and spend way to much time here. I am not complaining just observing my own inadequacies.

What do you foresee for the future of the internet?

I see the net as becoming the alternate reality. We will hook minds togeather and experiance everything ... think of the wonders for the very handicapped. And also I see that it will be a source of advertsing and hard sell. It will also serve purient interests, which is not all bad. But carried to extremes it will be a problem.

What is the worst internet experiance you have had? [/QUOTE
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I believe i have seen personalities changes for the worse in a number of on line friends (not all). The net and literotica can provide so much attention and give us many of the things we want but do not get at home. I am a strong believer in freedom and equality and believe that the net may (in some occassions) promote life styles that are not of that philosphy. Yet the dangers, and they are real, must be controlled individually, as it would be far more dangerous to over control the net.

 

[riff]

Flaubert said that trains merely allowed stupid people to get from one place to another in order to do more stupid things. Cynicism? Certainly. But I don't think the humor is lost. We all know what it means.

In the early 1900s, Ford produced an automobile that that was affordable to people other than the rich. As people began to buy them and increasingly depend on them, modern roads were built.

I mention this because the our highways are the workhorse of our transportation infrastructure and the automobile revolution changed the world. Not just changing the landscape, but changing the way people lived. At least from where I sit!

I read an interesting book about computers and the next level of civilization. The author says that the technological sophistication of a civilization is directly related to the amount of information that it's members exchange with each other.

First we had language. We learned how to communicate ideas- information, and this lead to the development of societies.

Then we developed writing, now we could effectively communicate information without having to be present. Writing coincides with the development of urban centers and written law.

A big jump was taken with the next level, the development of the printing press, whereby information could be mass produced cheaply. It was roughly at about this time that Europe's "Enlightenment" began.

The next level is the computer. Almost-instant communication. The internet is simply what connects the computers.

I think the next level might be something like bio-chips that will be integrated with our bodies.
You won't have to memorize stuff anymore. You won't have to caluclate anymore. In fact, combine d with communications technology, speech will become an extremely personal mode of communication. Almost like sex. Resistance is futile. Brave new world, here we come.

All of that is fine and well, but how has the internet changed my life?

It gave me a career. It gives me a library at my fingertips. Love the porno too.

I have made a few friends on the internet over the years. Exchanged ideas and had a lot of fun with a lot of people, so in this regard, the internet is a social outlet.

Hours of diversion. Hours and hours of diversion.

Like this place.

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Internet?

I have seen the enemy....and they is us!

RhumbRunner

 

[T.H. Oughts]

So has an understated monster been built?
No, worse things have happened at sea

What has the internet done to your life?
It allows me to live in a small country at the bottom of the world and meet people I would never had.... It allows my website to be a colour catalouge for the world to see my art work, educate and sell my books. I would not have got as international with them without the internet.

What do you foresee for the future of the internet?
I think user pays will take over. The mass marketing of clicking on links to paid advertising is not working as good as it could. So free sites that offer services are not making enough income to cover their website expense and stay a free service.....

When was the last time you clicked on an advertisment at a free website, or followed through with what that advert wanted you to do?

What is the worst internet experiance you have had?
Having 1/4 my website stolen and passed off by a adult Uni student as their own work. I got them kicked off their Uni course for cheating....