NET 11: Final thoughts

I was thinking about titling this NET11: Module 5 - Information ecologies, but since this is the last post `Final thoughts` seems more appropriate. So here goes lol.

The Internet is constantly viewed as something strange and unusual that the media delights in scare mongering about. In reality its nothing more than a technological evolution of human communication and interaction. We've gone from communicating via wall paintings, to writing letters, to telegrams, to phone conversations and now we have the internet. I suppose the biggest problem when it comes to people's understanding and acceptance of the internet is the fact that its happened so fast and its so different (on the surface) to anything we've had before.

The internet is on such a larger scale than anything before it. No other method is able to connect so many people from so many walks of life in such a relitivly simple manner. At first the internet was contrictive in the fact that in order to create a website you had to know HTML. This isn't the case anymore as `Web 2.0` is coming of age and user created content is taking over.

With the increasing user built content the internet is evolving from mostly information, to primarily communication. Instead of meeting friends at a cafe for a chat, people are meeting up in chat rooms. Our lives are moving from entirely physical, to somewhat virtual, with the greater percentage of jobs out there being based, if not entirely then partially, on the internet.

Society has buit itself to the point that the sudden removal of the internet would be catastrophic, so it's not so far fetched to call it an ecology. It doesn't matter if you call it an `information ecology` or a `communication ecology`, the internet is both and the loss of it would have immeasurable consequences.

~ I've probably not covered everything and I think I'm rambling but since times up and my head is spinning this is pretty much all I've got left. It's been an interesting course and I wish I had the time it diserved to devote to it. I've certainly started thinking about things in a different light and hopefully I've managed to articulate my wandering thoughts well enough. Good luck in your future endeavours to anyone that reads this and sorry if my nonsensicle ramblings makes your head hurt >.<;

Cheers,
Kalina