Since the advent of the internet, what impact, IYO has it had on the world, good or bad?
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The Internet has had many effects. The one that pops up in response to your question is that it has "lubricated" the general tendency of the modern world to speed up: things go faster than they used to.... change, transactions, research, communication -- it's as if the world was already accelerating, and then Tim Berners-Lee hit the afterburner button with the invention of the World Wide Web. So "rate of change" is the short version of this answer.
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good and getting better i agree with homer Simpson when he said "someday it will be more than a medium to exchange pornography internationally"
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It has "flattened" the world, meaning that we no longer look in town for someone to do something. We look globally for someone that can do the best, fastest, job for the least amount of money and who, as it turns out, MIGHT happen to live in Bangalor, India. In the short run, this may hurt American blue collar laborers. In the long run, blue collar laborers will have to get up to snuff and it will benefit everyone: education will become a must, not a maybe. See The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman, an excellent book about how modern technologly has brought earthlings closer and closer together. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat Socially, I think it allows people who might never meet each other in the real world to open up conversations, with the possibility of 80 year olds be-friending 20 year olds and the likes. It is one thing for instance to read about angry Muslims, and quite another to play a game with a Muslim young man in Yahoo Spades and really get to communicate.
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