The Internet And Development Of Information

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The Internet and Development of Information

The internet remains an ever growing phenomenon that is here to stay and transforms the world in the manner that business is conducted at an unprecedented pace. From taking courses online and earning degrees, to paying bills in the comfort of your own home. It is not just American society that the internet is transforming, but the rest of the world, especially developing countries are taking notice. Will developing countries benefit from the fast learning experiences and commodities the internet has to offer? Or will the internet just create a wider gap between first world industrialized countries like the U.S. and Japan? Internet access is not available to all people and the new generations disparities in the world will epitomize the disadvantages that failure to internet access will bring. All aspects of life are transformed by computer and information technology in our new day of age and ever more so in the future.

First of all, the internet has become a very important medium for gathering important information and providing all sorts of data at the click of a button that would otherwise not be available unless you went to some library halfway across the world, or subscribed to some popular newspaper that needed to be special ordered to your country to find out the outcome for a bill recently voted on in Chile. Library databases hold very important information from all over the world at the comfort of home or school that obviously those schools without access to the internet are left without. Research is important when making any and all kinds of decisions since it allows the researcher a wide area of knowledge on the subject from around the world, thus saving a lot of time and energy from traveling to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. to inquire about past bills and study them in full context. The powerful tool of learning and the information the internet has available as a learning tool is definitely transforming the way learning is performed. Those without internet are being left behind in a hurry and are at a sever disadvantage when it comes to competing for jobs or accessing information. An industry in computers has been created that is expanding exponentially, and those that are missing out obviously cannot compete in the trillion dollar industry phenomenon. Hence, countries and its population are becoming more backward everyday and missing out on education necessary for the new internet global order, and more importantly in the economic gains that the internet has transformed in all aspects of revenue.

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