How Does The Web Reflect The Society And The Individuals.docx

How does the web reflect the society and the individuals?

We cannot counter act the way that the web works will shape how we see the world and how we organize ourselves in society. As humans, we constantly search for new and better ways to understand the world around us. There is a rich history of using our newest technologies as lenses to see anew the natural and social systems around us. When clocks were invented, there was no shortage of expositions, essays and analogies using clockwork as a way of better explaining all sorts of phenomena. The human body operating as clockwork was a particular topic of fascination. Some of these analogies may read simplistic or even comical to the modern reader, but others have broadly influenced how we perceive the world still today. Think Isaac Newton and the clockwork universe. We still talk about our body clocks. A high-performance organization functions like clockwork. It is baked into how we see the world and it gives us a mental template for designing solutions. According to the World Wide Web Foundation / ITU World Telecommunications Database Inclusion on the web will determine our opportunities in life. In December 2018 we marked another milestone. It was officially recorded that for the first time, 50% of the world’s population is now connected to the internet the ‘50/50 moment’. Whether you feel that this is a great achievement or slow progress, it means that all of the innovation and change that we see across our lives today is a result of just a fraction of the world being online – and not for very long. More will come, and likely the pace of innovation will only increase. As a greater and greater proportion of minds are born into a world which operates as much in networks as hierarchies and as much in decentralized structures and centralized authority how will this influence how we see the world and how we organize ourselves in society? We cannot tell. But it will certainly be coloured differently if we have shaped a web that is inclusive, trusted and safe than if we have not. Which world do we want our young minds to grow up in?

Reference/s World Economic Forum,(2019). Ways the web has changed our lives. Retrieved on October 14, 2019 from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/four-ways-theweb-has-changed-our-lives-and-will-shape-our-future/ TEDed, (N.D). What is the World Wide Web?. Retrieved on October 15,2019. From https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-world-wide-web-twila-camp#review