How the Internet Has Changed Society
p. 1). The number of people using the Internet increases, although penetration is likely to be slower in developing countries with poor infrastructure development. Overall, the Internet has increased dependency on technology at almost every level of society. Governments, public utilities, and all finance and business activities now rely on the Internet, as do media sources. The result has been a proliferation in personal, portable electronic devices and shifts in the ways consumers shop, the ways people travel, and the ways people process information. The Internet has resulted in increased connectivity across the globe: “humankind is now almost entirely connected, albeit with great levels of inequality in bandwidth, efficiency, and price,” (Castells,… Continue Reading...