Week 5: The Internet-Where Boredom Goes to Die Along With A Dose of Increasing Paranoia

The internet is a scary place. You can post videos, interact in social networks, play games, find the news, and potentially attack the world. Yes sir. Its happened in the past with events like "Code Red" and its been predicted that if someone wanted to and was determined to that they could cause very serious damage to the US and take down a vital part of the way we live in the US. Be cautious every time your internet slows. Check the connection and try to fix it. If it is unfix able fear the worse and be relieved when the worse doesn't come true and if such events were to happen then you are already prepared.

Why must we rely so heavily on the internet? The non computer generations that need to adapt and learn how to use computers remember times where it was rare to find music and most had to be special ordered. There were no chain stores like there are today. To have a wide variety meant death to your business, and yet some still survive. Others feel the chains will fail now that digital downloads are availible, which leads me to another question: Why MP3s? They are only 8-bit and not a linear line. Call me old fashion but records had the constant wave of sound being played and it was pure and crisp. MP3s are bits on info that can be downloaded in packets that may leave gaps or static sound.

I'm an analog guy in a digital world. But why not restore the analog culture and rely less on the internet and computers in general? It would help supply more jobs and make us more self sufficient. We should not fear viruses or bigger attacks every time we log on. The internet should be used only to obtain news feeds, email, and maybe some sort of entertainment.

Its too easy to lie and become someone else online. False names, screennames, cyber bullying, role playing, and more are just things that show that you can creative or a spy. It reminds me of A Scanner Darkly with the masks that police must wear so no one ever knows who police are, yet its the mans boss that sets him up and makes him OD on drugs and cause his mind to split. The internet is a new world. New in the sense that its only been around since the 60's and only publicly availible for less than 20 years. This nation isnt even 300 years old yet we are considered still a young country to put just a small perspective on how new the world of the internet is. In this short span it is now becoming airborne through wifi and cell phones. We have come a long way and yet still much more progress will be mad. There is no past, just the present. It even has several of its own launguages such as HTML, Java, and C++ (not to mention the cyber english such as LOL that has been created). I welcome this world and hope to enjoy it for many more years.