FREE ESSAY ON THE INTERNET'S INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIETY

THE INTERNET'S INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIETY

The Internet is a new revolution to all of mankind. People are using computers for tasks
unimaginable ten years ago. This paper will share with you ideas on computer use and the
Internet in the twenty-first century.
The Internet, introduced to consumers in 1996, has grown immensely over the past four
years. Other technologies took up to thirty-eight years to reach fifty million people.
The Internet only took four years to reach well over fifty million users. The Internet's
extreme rate of growth will continue while we have no idea where it will take us.
The Internet is becoming the most important tool to humans today. There are many
different uses for every kind of person. For instance, online banking saves time and
money over traditional banking. Small businesses have been rewriting the rules to
commerce with the use of the Internet. Kendra Bonnett states:
Just three years ago a study for Internet commerce estimated that thirty-seven million
people in North America (age sixteen and older) had access to the Internet. Among this
group, twenty-four million reported that they have used the Internet during the last
three months, and only seven percent have purchased products or services over the
Internet. (An IBM guide to doing e-business, 2000, p. 9)
The number of people involved with the Internet is what makes it such a success. The
Internet will continue to grow while people find more uses for it every day. It is able
to find information on any topic imagined at your greatest convenience. 
As the Internet keeps growing, problems continue growing as well. With the help of the
Internet, people are distributing copyrighted data for a profit. This is data that should
be sold in the retail market. Examples would be musical files, games, and applications.
Stefan Ventroni (2000), an attorney for Hit Box Music, believes that the rights of
creative artists are being trampled on because of the Internet (p.1). Each album on
compact disc can costs up to fifteen dollars purchased legally. These albums were
downloaded for free more than 1,000 times via the Internet. All laws enforced in the real
world still apply to the virtual world. We have to use responsibility when applying this
new amazing tool to our lives. This will soon be realized as the two worlds slowly merge
into one.
In conclusion, the new technologies involving computers are opening doors unexplored and
nobody knows where it will take us as a society. Author Nicholas Stein (2000) states, The
Internet will effect our society in such dramatic ways that humans can not prepare or
predict (p.182).
Bibliography
International Business Machines Corporation. (1998). An IBM guide for doing e-business.
United States: Kendra R. Bonnett.
Nicholas Stien, Fortune (2000, February). The Renaissance man of e-commerce. E-company,
p. 181-188.
Stefan Ventroni. (2000). Technology News. The urges for wider Internet access, 1.
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