500 billion gigabytes
guardian.co.uk
What proportion of the world’s population can now go online?
360,985,492 out of 6,930,055,154 (estimate) of the population of the world can go online
The penetration rate of the world is 32.7 %.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
The number of people who could access the internet in 1995?
In 1995 there were 15 million users of the internet which is 0.4% of the population.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm
The number of people who can access the internet in today?
In 2012, 2,280 million people can access the interent which is 32.7% of the population
internetworldstats.com
By 2010, 22 percent of the world's population had access to computers with 1 billion Google searches every day, 300 million Internet users reading blogs, and 2 billion videos viewed daily on YouTube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
How has the internet changed...
community
Instead of community only existing in the real world, a sense of community is available online. This includes people interacting, not face to face, but from behind a screen. This means people are able to create communities from the comfort of their own homes. However the fact that you are hiding behind you screen makes it possible for building online communities not just for positive reasons but for negative motives. Including topics that may be frowned up on by society.
“As the Internet melts away old boundaries of tribes and places like icebergs in the tropical sun, we chat increasingly in online communities, input your data locally and commune globally, united for better or worse by our interests, language, and values.”
“diminishing the degree to which people relied upon face-to-face contacts, and making it increasingly possible to maintain social relations, conduct business transactions”
“computer-mediated communication (CMC) has not only rendered our "global village" yet smaller (McLuhan 1964), but it has also created a new place—cyberspace, that can be populated by new communities”
online safety
The fact that young people today have grown up in a technology reliant society and is developing rapidly. This for the majority of young people means that they are more computer literate than their parents. This means that unlike any other aspect in life where you can be protected by your parents; if they don’t know how to use the internet, they cannot be the ones to protect you. Additionally, it seems that adults are more weary of risks unlike younger people who may be more venerable to harm.
“advocates and experts have questioned whether the Internet has made our children vulnerable to threats ranging from stumbling on salacious content to exposing too much of one’s self to social networks.”
“many have proposed that older generations of Internet users are more concerned with privacy online”
“For adults, the notion that kids, tweens and teens have access to a tool that allows them to torment another child”
business
Businesses use internet as a platform for marketing. Almost all businesses nowadays have their own website so that their customers can access extra information that may entice them as customers. They also use social media as a tool to reach a mass audience which allows their business to spread by sharing and advertising. Also businesses are more able to function on a wider global scale by using the internet to communicate with clients and partners no matter where they are in the world.
“you can jump online and instantly be connected with someone on the other side of the globe”
“small businesses that would never have had a chance to succeeded, are flourishing”
“it is difficult to succeed today without internet marketing”
culture
By using the internet to research and find out about other cultures we are unfamiliar with allows people to become more tolerant and respectful of people they are unaccustomed to. Additionally, internet may begin to slowly corrupt our culture and push out traditions and replace them with the modernisms of the internet such as internet reliant culture. Meaning we won’t rely on ourselves for the knowledge but the internet as its quick and easy.
“we as a culture are exposed to more opinions than before”
“As the Internet grows to encompass a larger segment of the world's population its diversity will increase until it begins to mirror the external world.”
“Simply, the old common philosophy was opposed to commercial activity on the net because the net existed solely for research purposes.”
Copyright
The internet affects copyright in a major way. This is because internet users are able to share material from institutions limitlessly – everyone has access to it unlimited times. Ultimately, this means that possibly, you only need one legal copy of the material, upload it to the internet and its there for everyone. This would lead to institutions going bust from not enough sales.
“User-generated mashups are changing the face of copyright laws, which have to evolve to catch up with the Internet generation”
“enforcement reaches a murkier area when it comes to user-generated content such as mashups, which are not a direct copy of original material.”
“This wasn’t Google v Hollywood,” says Stark, a visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. “This was 15 million Internet users v Hollywood. “
nature of information
We can never truly be 100% sure of the nature of the information we are looking at. This is because of site like wikis and blogs where normal people can enter their own information, it may not have been regulated and double checked so some of it may be incorrect.
http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1064723
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1704424/mobile-lifestyle-changing-nature-information
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1704424/mobile-lifestyle-changing-nature-information
communication
Internet has corrupted communication between people in real life because it has made people not bother speaking to someone directly, face to face. For example, if you wanted to see your friend, maybe instead of actually visiting them you might use skype or facetime. This shows how society have become more lazy, however it can also be seen as a benefit by being able to see a relative across the globe you may not physically be able to see.
privacy
Privacy is affected by the internet, for example, if you sign up to a social networking site and enter your information, it is you who is responsible for making sure you don’t put anything on there that you wouldn’t want people to see. However if a piece of your information is leaked by someone or a glitch, you can become vulnerable as you don’t know who has seen it and saved it. This may lead to republishing meaning that information will always be on there.
