Self Evaluation

WWW...
Used different effective images that displayed the various points we aimed to put across about the internet. All three of the questions were answered so that we could give a balanced view about the internet.
We used catchy, iconic music to accompany the visual side of the video.

EBI...
The captions that went along with the images were a bit slower that they could be more easily read.
We included quotes from different people about the internet
We included more official statistics

QUOTES
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ~Bill Gates
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates.  The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.  ~Bill Clinton
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.  ~Rupert Murdoch
Compares the worldwide community of bloggers and indie artists to "infinite monkeys...typing away. ~Andrew Keen 
We believe within 5 years 96% of British consumers will have access to the internet. ~ Richard Branson

5 of "The Internet" Videos

The Internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UplD16TNF_s&feature=youtu.be

Sumary on Article

(ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/20/internet-everything-need-to-know)

[1] Take the Long View

Hard to tell when actually in the revolution, we will realise and won’t be able to tell the impact until it becomes the past. We don’t live with hindsight - we don’t know where the internet will take us next. But people tend to overestimate new and upcoming technologies and underestimate their long term implications. New technologies change the world we live in. People want to know whats going to happen with the internet now, but wont really find out until its too late.

[2] The Web isn’t the Net

The internet and web are different things. The internet is an infrastructure of which everything runs. Web pages amongst other things – music, software, email, etc – are the traffic. In 10 years time there will be more types of traffic running on the internet. Internet is much bigger than the web.

[3] Disruption is a Feature, not a Bug

Cerf and Kahn were faced with; how to seamlessly interlink lots of networks and how to design one that is future proof. Their solution – there’s no central ownership or control and that it wont be optimised for a specific application. They “created what was essentially a global machine for springing surprises.”  Tim Berners-Lee, in 1991 put the code on an internet server without having to ask anyone's permission. Ten years after Shawn Fanning spent six months writing software for sharing music files, in 1999, he called it Napster and it acquired over 60 million users before the music industry managed to shut it down. Uring this, people began to create spam, exploits and malware.

[4] Think Ecology, Not Economics

Our media ecosystem has become more complex, its expanding rapidly. “it has millions of publishers; billions of active, web-savvy, highly informed readers, listeners and viewers; innumerable communication channels, and a dizzying rate of change.”

[5] Complexity is the new reality

Our emerging information environemt is more complex (numbers of participants, the density of interactions between them, and the pace of change). It is a new reality we have to address. Behaviour of complex systems is hard to control and predict.

[6] The network is now the computer

Standalone computer began to get integrated into a network making them part of something. First, the companies like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft provided search also began to offer "webmail" It doesn’t actually run on your computer.  Google then offered word-processing, spreadsheets, slide-making and other "office"-type services over the network. Network computing has lead to the emergence of cloud computing. The raises an issue on security and privacy.

[7] The web is changing

the web has gone through at least three phases of evolution – from the original web 1.0, to the web 2.0 of "small pieces, loosely joined" (social networking, mashups, webmail, and so on) and is now heading towards some kind of web 3.0 - a global platform based on Tim Berners-Lee's idea of the 'semantic web' (where web pages will contain enough metadata about their content to enable software to make informed judgements about their relevance and function). It’s no longer just a publication medium.

 [8] Huxley and Orwell are the bookends of our future

Aldous Huxley believed that we would be destroyed by the things we love, while George Orwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we fear. The net has been a profoundly liberating influence in our lives – creating endless opportunities for information, entertainment, pleasure, delight, communication, and apparently effortless consumption, especially for the young generation. Other critics are worried that incessant internet use is actually rewiring our brains. The internet is the nearest thing to a perfect surveillance machine the world has ever seen. Everything you do on the net is logged. Could be used as a tool for a totalitarian government interested in the behaviour, social activities.

[9] Our intellectual property regime is no longer fit for purpose. In the digital world, copying is effortless and perfect. When you view a web page, for example, a copy of the page is loaded into the video memory of your computer (or phone, or iPad) before the device can display it on the screen. So you can't even look at something on the web without (unknowingly) making a copy of it. Digital technology has provided internet users with software tools which make it easy to copy, edit, remix and publish anything that is available in digital form. Their creations are globally published on platforms such as Blogger, Flickr and YouTube, therefore, you can find material that infringes copyright in one way or another.