PBS made a documentary named "Growing up online", that spoke about how this generation is being raised way differently than previous generations due to technology becoming more readily available and cheaper. Super computers would take up lots of space but since they were made smaller, by the 1990s most household had a computer in it. The internet that was introduced and came out to our parents now belongs to us, the younger generation. A new way of communication has been introduced, by way of social media. Social media allows people people that you may not personally know to get you on a whole different level. Things that should've been private can be made public knowledge, which in a way is bad and really dangerous. For example with a simple stroke of the keyboard your address can be found in less than 30 seconds. Isn’t that crazy ?
The internet is very useful when it comes to keeping us connected. We can get basically obtain any information we need with just a raise of a finger or even the sound of your voice through Siri, or converse with people miles away. This is a total upgrade from having to go to libraries and read through books to perhaps find the single piece of information we want. The old ways were so time consuming. The algorithms used to display things that you might be interested, almost like a close friend that knows you very well. This theory is brought up in Clive Thompson's High-Bandwidth Buddies. With all the good that the internet does a question has came up on wether want we want from the internet is what we actually need. Adapting the internet to our specific wants has had a negative impact on us. The author of a book, The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser seems to agree with that theory. He explains in the book that an algorithm is used to display things that we might like to see...
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