Gone are the days where we use to believe anything communicated to us. Our beliefs were high, we use to trust others. It was the age of trust and beliefs. Now we have entered in to the IT age where everything seems so fascinating and charming and with more and more advancements in the software age our jobs are getting easier. But, did we ever realize that excessive use or dependency on software is eating up our intelligence power and making our brains hollow from inside. Let us look on one of the streams.
With the recent advancements in the software world our dependency on the software has increased drastically. The motto of this age is to go online or go ‘e’ and make this world as e-world. With the invention of Internet world is shrinking, nations are getting closer, cultures are getting blended. Internet has brought our age to a whole new level. We can travel faster than the speed of light, buy the stuff sitting at home, get the reservations done from home, get the bills cleared sitting at home and we can do virtually anything which we haven’t dreamt of before.
We read newspapers which demand the sacrifice of the trees to get the paper on which information can be printed and can be distributed to the masses, the information on the newspapers becomes very old before it reaches us and there is a risk of data getting manipulated in middle of the entire news distribution network. But, now we have an alternative way of getting the information rather than receiving the information in a traditional way i.e. e-papers. Public information and news on the internet can be accessed by anyone who has the access on internet. It spreads faster and has a great influence on the masses which access the information.
But, did we ever think on the darker side of this process. The information which is floating on the internet can be totally fake and irrelevant. With the growing use of internet we have seen the negative use of the internet where multiple disturbing elements tried to embark tense atmospheres by putting up the provocative stuff on the internet. Great wars have been fought in the past wherever there is a clash in the thought process and difference of opinions. Internet is serving the same purpose advancing us to the e-war age and sad but true there is minimal level of governance and monitoring on this
The information on the internet can easily be manipulated and controlled by the individuals who tend to get benefitted from this, for ex: a mobile company which has launched its latest handset wants to sell off the product by creating its false branding on the internet, it can create false reviews and false specification of the product and offers to buy the stuff online. Stakeholders want to stay ahead in the race, so it has started like a Cyber politics of changing and influencing the public thinking power and decisions.
But, end of the day choice is ours to believe or disbelieve the information put up on the internet.
With the recent advancements in the software world our dependency on the software has increased drastically. The motto of this age is to go online or go ‘e’ and make this world as e-world. With the invention of Internet world is shrinking, nations are getting closer, cultures are getting blended. Internet has brought our age to a whole new level. We can travel faster than the speed of light, buy the stuff sitting at home, get the reservations done from home, get the bills cleared sitting at home and we can do virtually anything which we haven’t dreamt of before.
We read newspapers which demand the sacrifice of the trees to get the paper on which information can be printed and can be distributed to the masses, the information on the newspapers becomes very old before it reaches us and there is a risk of data getting manipulated in middle of the entire news distribution network. But, now we have an alternative way of getting the information rather than receiving the information in a traditional way i.e. e-papers. Public information and news on the internet can be accessed by anyone who has the access on internet. It spreads faster and has a great influence on the masses which access the information.
But, did we ever think on the darker side of this process. The information which is floating on the internet can be totally fake and irrelevant. With the growing use of internet we have seen the negative use of the internet where multiple disturbing elements tried to embark tense atmospheres by putting up the provocative stuff on the internet. Great wars have been fought in the past wherever there is a clash in the thought process and difference of opinions. Internet is serving the same purpose advancing us to the e-war age and sad but true there is minimal level of governance and monitoring on this
The information on the internet can easily be manipulated and controlled by the individuals who tend to get benefitted from this, for ex: a mobile company which has launched its latest handset wants to sell off the product by creating its false branding on the internet, it can create false reviews and false specification of the product and offers to buy the stuff online. Stakeholders want to stay ahead in the race, so it has started like a Cyber politics of changing and influencing the public thinking power and decisions.
But, end of the day choice is ours to believe or disbelieve the information put up on the internet.
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