The future of the internet and connectedness globally will continue to be more widespread. This will influence globalization and we believe that some of the below are the positives that can be impacted from this technology:
- Increase knowledge of other cultures.
- Decrease stereotyping and opens the minds of future generations.
- Not only concentrated in big cities, but the big cities having the ability to reach to the most austere and underdeveloped locations.
- Use the internet to increase the middle class by enabling the rich to help the poor. Give the rich opportunities to do this through government tax breaks and other alternatives for businesses to make a difference.
- Continue to influence business by transferring production, customer service, and transactions automatically online to pinpoint inefficiency.
- Artificial intelligence will continue to be developed through knowledge discovery and connect us to each other like never before.
All of this and much more will be spurred by the development of WEB 3.0. We think that by creating an internet that basically thinks back at you, knows what you like and who you are, can predict your actions and what surfing techniques you use will create an environment that people will never want to live without. Pure reliance on the internet and how we use it will be great for some people and detrimental to others.
The research on this is few, and the studies that have been done are published in a very vague manner with the findings. This is stated in a few sentences I found in a cover story published by the American Psycological Association,
“If you believe what you read, "Internet addiction" is about to make us a nation of derelicts. Men drooling over online pornography, women abandoning their husbands for chat-room lovers and people losing their life savings on gambling Web sites are just a few of the stories peddled in today's press.
But despite the topic's prominence, published studies on Internet addiction are scarce. Most are surveys, marred by self-selecting samples and no control groups. The rest are theoretical papers that speculate on the philosophical aspects of Internet addiction but provide no data.
Meanwhile, many psychologists even doubt that addiction is the right term to describe what happens to people when they spend too much time online.”
We took this into our own hands again.... and created a few points of how internet addiction could effect us in the future as a society. By analyzing the positives that may come from the future of the internet, many negatives could come from the internet and internet addiction could be responsible for these:
- Stretching the internet to it's maximum. Overloading internet capability load before the future technology can catch up to demand. Thus crashing the system of which EVERYTHING and everyone will rely on.
- Being responsible for world wide obesity and decreasing the life-span of people, thus increasing cardiac disease and other diseases created by sitting at the computer and lack of movement.
- Creating large costs in health care from the actual addiction, symptoms and effects.
- Mass depression from lack of socialization between people. Thus, making people more impatient, short tempered, have attitudes, and lose touch with compassion that many people are known for.
- Many businesses terminated and bankrupt from the internet obsession:
TV Channels - people getting all the entertainment from the internet.
Security systems - People are home all the time, so why do they need security systems.
Gyms loose memberships
Travel decreases
- On the other side some businesses would spike in production and revenues:
Home delivery services and food delivery services
Online ordering businesses
Home energy costs will go up from people being home more
Online courses will increase
Knowledge could increase from people searching whatever they want so easily.
People that continue to balance their internet use with real life could have the upper hand. As everyone else will be preoccupied by it.
THANK YOU for informing yourself and following us the last few weeks on internet addiction. I hope this blog site has informed you and entertained you on this topic. This is an ongoing issue and I am sure we will continue to discover new positives and negatives of the internet everyday. I don't think internet addiction will be a big issue in our lifetimes, but in the long term, who knows.
THANK YOU !
TEAM IA.
(Source: http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr00/addiction.aspx)
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