Videos

I'd be lying if I said that these three videos, taken together, did not blow my mind. There are two big things that I took away from the videos: 1, I still have a very low understanding of the technology of the Internet and the technical processes that go into creating web pages (i.e. HTML vs. XML); 2, the social impact of the Internet has been at sometime enlightening and devastating, but in either case it can be argued that no event in the 20th century has had a greater social impact than the Internet (yes, there were pretty significant military and political events that took place during the 20th century, but the Internet's impact is purely social). As much as I love the Internet, as much as I depend on the Internet, as much as I need the Internet, it cannot be denied that the Internet has taken over our lives. Can you imagine what would happen if the Internet was down worldwide, even if for only a day? The economy would stop; banks could not function, no business could work, the world would be virtually silent. We don't just simply use the Internet, the Internet is our lives - we've gone so far with Internet dependence that our society could not possibly live without the Internet, not even for a day. It's scary. Really scary.