The Internet Today: Causes and Effects

1996 was the year of net profit. We constantly saw and heard the al-Quran profits e precisewhere last year. The beginning of the profit was the computer profits called ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) which started in 1969 and was supported by the Department of Defense in America since they urgencyed the webbed network which female genitalsnot be severed easily. At the beginning, ARPA had been used for the military need and when it became more commercialized, it came to be called Internet.Accordingly, you wad verify that the need of defense caused Internet to begin. Currently, Internet is now changing the design of nation, the means to communicate with people and even your view of life. and then what should we do to deal with it? Can we be only a fanatic of Internet or be an anti-Internet? First, Id like to show the positive effects that Internet has caused then, I will move on to the prohibit side.mayhap you drive out come up with many positive effects of Interne t. First, you flock buy the farm the latest news on the web anytime everywhere. It moldiness be kindle if students make a good use of the web because what teachers teach you is not always the latest thing. Even though the teacher say aboutthing to students, they can reply like this No, thats not true, Mr. Blank, I asked Dr. Know-it-all at Top University exactly a hardly a(prenominal) minutes ago on the web, and he said Blank-sensei is wholly wrong, the correct cultivation is . . . You can have an opportunity to keep in touch with things new and whats happening in the world now. This was not vi open a decade ago.Second, Internet is changing the concept of organization or system like a nation, an ethnic group, a fellowship and a network of people. Imagine you be Japanese living in Sweden.you cant deliver Swedish, you dont have any Japanese friends living your neighboring city. Maybe youll give way nervous because you cant get any Japanese news new(prenominal) than the e arn from your friends. You dont have enough money to call Japan since its too expensive. erst you get on Internet account, your problem will all be goneYou can chat with your Japanese friends on the web at a low price and can get any breeding that you want. Actually, Chinese people living all over the world are now making a network which support them each other on the Internet. For them, Internet is a very practical means to digest their nationality and unify them as Chinese. You can be one of them (the Chinese) wherever you are. The borders betwixt countries are fading by Internet in this way.In illustration of company, the differences between the classes are now fading slowly in Japan. You can say what you want to tell your boss or a company president by sending E-mail directly. Consequently, the relationship among people in the company is changing since you dont need someone to communicate with your superior anymore. The functional style is also changing you dont have to go to the company general because you can do your work at home and send what youve with by E-mail. You can have more free time and can change your lifestyle as you like.Fourth, concerning a network of people, Internet helped to wed and gather volunteers after the big earthquake had rocked the city of Kobe in 1995. The homepage do by one of the volunteer posted lots of nurture much(prenominal) as what refugees in Kobe need and which shelter needs helpers.Fifth, Internet is a good means to express yourself. You can make your homepage and introduce yourself there. Then some people who saw your homepage would be interested in you or your information offered on the homepage and would contact you. It can be someone from strange country that youve never been to. Isnt that kind of a great meeting? Maybe you want to found your own company on the web. Its possible now. Internet is very useful if you have something that you want to do or express. today Id like to state the prohibit effec ts of Internet. First, an infringement of copyright (or piracy) on the web is one of the most controversial problem that Internet has caused. It is very hard to comfort the copyright since you can get any information on the web any time. You can draw some pictures offered in someones homepage into yours and you can copy everything that is shown on the web-which youre supposed not to do so.Second, subverter materials posted on the web is also a big problem. Its straightforward that subversive materials like porno or the picture of a abruptly body are not good for you nor for children. It can happen that desolate kids cruising the web to find a toy companys homepage stumble across the nursing home where many horrible pictures are posted. Though Singapores government now started dictatorial and policing those obscene material on the web, there is a interrogative to be raised doesnt the regulation offend the freedom of speech?The same question has also been raised from the United States when the obscene pictures on the web were prosecuted. Then, how should we protect our children from those subversive materials on Internet? Is there any way to bill the degree of the obscene materials? To make matters worse, there is currently no customary law that can supervise those problems. As you know, since Internet is worldwide, all countries must cooperate to restrict something on the web otherwise, you can do it in the country where the law is not enforced.Third, you have to be concerned round the crime on the web. Because you can offer some information anonymously on Internet, some people can also trespass upon your privacy through Internet by spreading some information that you want to private. Furthermore, a crime on the web can sometimes be very serious. If you are a computer specialist, you could steal a occult information like the military secrets of another country. It actually happened a few years ago a guy from Brazil stole through Internet military se crets from the Department of Defense in U.S.A.Fourth, as some people say, the Internet is a box of waste since most of the information which is offered on the web is junk. All you do on the web is just wasting your time. In addition, E-mails sometimes bother people you cant write stick out to a hundred mails Some mails may even have energy to do with you. Dealing with E-mail could waste a lot of your time.As I said earlier, Internet, which was first created for military use, causes both positive and prejudicial effects today. Nevertheless, you just cant complain all the time about the negative effects of Internet. You know that its too late to stop the expanding of Internet. You wont be able to live without it. What is now demanded for us is to deal with both positive and negative side of Internetand, hopefully, to change its negative effects for the better.by Rumiko Nomurahttp//www.tsujiru.net/ cranial orbit/compass_1997/reg/nomura_r_3.htm