A Complete New World

A Complete New World

Many technologies have changed the way we live today. For instance, before the microwave, people had to spend lots of time trying to cook something; in the case of the TV, children relied on action figures and playgrounds to have some fun; and completing the homework would take hours and hours before the invention of the Internet. This amazing technology has been out there for some decades, changing our lives completely.

The Internet is really simple to use. All you need is a computer and Internet connection. From there you can browse almost anything: from recipes to entire books, from a song to an entire CD album, from an episode of a TV show to an entire season, and so on.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, one of the things you can do with the Internet is downloading information that you can use to complete your homework or to add some data to an essay. However, you have to be careful with the sources you rely on. For instance, it’s good to search for information in Wikipedia regarding entertainment topics (music, TV shows, etc.), but for academic purposes, it’s better to do a search on Google Scholar, or websites akin to that one. Also, you can upload whatever you want. If you recorded your friend doing something funny, you just go to YouTube and upload the video; you can say how much you hate or love people on Facebook; and you talk to random people using chat rooms.

It only took a couple of decades to the Internet to become a reliable source of both entertainment and information. Its easy interface and the download and upload options are incredibly powerful. It sounds quite good, right? But, as many things, it has a B-side, maybe the following video about piracy will help you to think of something.