Exploring the Internet's Impact on Human Interaction

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From the article, “The Internet” by the Pew Research Foundation, David Clark, a senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence stated, “Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own ‘social networks’, which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation. More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices.” Personally, I can see this already becoming a key part in technology, as more devices are developed, their awareness to their surroundings become more apparent. And, as he puts “social networks” is what the Internet allows us to do on a daily basis to communicate and share information between each other. It’s something we have become accustomed to as far as the 21st century since technology has exploded and the need for the Internet has heightened to unprecedented levels than before. Not only that, but with current state of the Internet we can program and compute further than we’ve been able to in the past. Sharing our ideas and forming groups to collaborate on projects that far supersedes anything done prior to the existence of the Internet. I wouldn’t say we are reaching a point …show more content…

Instead, you can sit at your desk in the convenience of your home or office, shop online, and get it delivered to your home. Of course, the nostalgia of shopping in stores will not go away any time soon. But, you can see it will hurt companies who choose to be stubborn towards the Internet and refuse to establish a website. Clearly, you can see that the Internet has an impact on fields such as business and education but it doesn’t stop there. As technology improves, so does the need for a better quality and efficiency of internet, and thus ways to access the internet are always being formed and improved

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