When I was 5 years old, I would love watching The
Little Mermaid on VHS. When the movie would end, I would not feel sad, but
excited because I would be able to put the VHS on a machine that would whirl
around the tape, making it rewind to the beginning. The buzzing of the machine sounded
as if there were a million bees surrounding me and it would transmit its energy
to me. However, technology has been transformed
to be a silent presence in a person’s life. The internet is evolving the world
and will continue to become a greater part of society.
I remember the days in which we used to have to fight
a battle with our parents to let us use the internet because it would interfere
with the phone line. We would have to negotiate a deal for when to use the
internet for brief moments at a time. Now, we can use the phone and the
internet at the same time! It’s amazing to see how easy it is for us to access
the internet. We are able to connect to wireless free internet on our iPods,
our smartphones, our laptops, and even in our cars! The internet is everywhere
for us to use as more and more devices are made to support internet
capabilities. More and more of our homework assignments and projects are being
based off of websites that can be found through the internet. Even many college
applications and scholarships are available through the internet. The internet
is becoming an increasingly essential part of a person’s life.
So as the internet becomes a greater part of a person’s
life, what will happen in 10 years? Instead of visiting our family members or
calling them through the phone, we will be using the internet to video chat
with them. The internet will become a greater part of our world because it will
increase its influence on the relationships that we make with others. We will
have to start building business connections through the internet because of the
increasing popularity of social networks.
People will come to rely more and more on the internet for information. I
predict that as more information is added to the internet and as more websites
are created, the internet will become monitored. As people continue to use the
internet, they will want to make sure that they are visiting websites that are
safe and accurate. In order to do so, the internet will have to be monitored in
order to prevent “fake” and inaccurate websites from being made. Businesses
will want to make sure that their products are not being reproduced illegally
through the internet, so the internet will have to be monitored.
From living in a time where we had to choose over the
phone and the internet, we are moving toward a time where the internet will
become a necessity and will be more secure than ever.
