This question has been asked many times already on Yahoo Answers, but I would like to ask it again, and request only serious answers. You may think I am asking this so that I can try to make money from the answers; you will have to take my word that I am not. I am fascinated by the evolution of the internet in the last decade. As far as I am concerned, the internet revolution started with the advent of Yahoo and then Google. From there we have seen MySpace create a world of online communities, the only real succesful clone being Facebook. YouTube introduced the world to the idea of video blogging, and made every single user famous in their own right. This years TIME Person of the Year is you, and me, and every other human being, because websites like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube have made the average Joe an internet celebrity. What are your thoughts? Where will the internet take us next?
2007-01-26 00:08:19 · 6 answers · asked by Tim K 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
with the invent of the information highway "the Internet" people have vast information at their fingertips, they can blog, produce videos, with MySpace and other sites of the like, new musicians can get their music heard without having to go to a big label company. Everything you've said is true ten fold....however...kids are dumbing down, they don't use library books anymore, encyclopedias, etc. why should they browse a card catalog when they can type it in a search engine much faster? Why do the term paper, when there are thousands of willing, unknowing victims on Yahoo Answers and other sites that will innocently answer their question, hence giving them all the information they need. Math classes allow calculators now and even place them on school supply lists as a "must have" The Internet can only get faster, take us further, soon we will no longer rent videos,DVDs, buy music Cd's, etc. Everything we do will be on the net. I personally love the Internet and spend many hours surfing the net, playing games on Pogo, answering questions on Yahoo, messaging friends and family on MySpace, emails, getting my digital pictures developed, etc. But I do think that schools should get back to the basics a little, because if one day the super information highway should have a roadblock, people need to know how to function. Just my opinion.
2007-01-26 00:18:58 · answer #1 · answered by Michele A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw a science program on the Discovery Channel that had some tantalizing clues. In the not-too-distant future (10-15 years), we may have a new kind of Internet, only it won't be connecting computer to computer, it will be connecting brain-to-brain! Imagine actually being able to experience another person's thoughts and emotions. Sounds crazy, but they're working on the interfaces right now! Of course, if you wanted privacy, you would just switch your link off.
2007-01-26 00:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Socially interactive virtual reality!
2007-01-26 00:21:11 · answer #3 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think You answered your own question.Wherever we take it that's where it will go.Its up to the consumers demand.
2007-01-26 00:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you i wish lol.... hehehe jst realised thats wat uiop appears like even as u say it lol. woo.. cos u reported wat comes next.. i became gona say me i wish lol.. hehehe omg thats so humorous.. sorry for being fairly impolite.. yet i made it very implicit... u must be wondering on the same wave elgth to take offense.
2016-10-16 03:20:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to other planets maybe
2007-01-26 00:21:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋