The Worst Things About the Internet
A tool is something that is used to carry out a particular function, and some are more useful than others. Sometimes we find that the secondary uses of tools turn out to have more complicated consequences than we first imagined. The tool that I want to address today is one of interconnected wires, computers, and servers which allow for the near instantaneous transfer of information: the internet. While there are many different places the internet essentially ‘started’, it all predicated on the same idea: that the faster age required a faster way to transfer information from one location to another. Whether through the Department of Defense and DARPA , or AL Gore’s initial funding through the High Performance Computing Act , what we have today has dramatically shifted the way we exist as a species. And like the tools of the past, there are secondary results that we must address and get used to. Today I want to talk about the three worst things about the internet and their results. An...