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- Essay Name : 1570.txt
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- Language : english
- Subject : Computer
- Title : internet beyond human control
- Grade : b
- School System : penn state university
- Country : USA
- Author Comments : good paper
- Teacher Comments : well done
- Date : 5/96
- Site found at : surfing
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- The Internet Beyond Human Control
- The Internet has started to change the way of the world during this decade. More homes,
- companies, and schools are getting hooked online with the Internet during the past few years.
- This change has started to become the new way of life present and future. The Internet system is
- so advanced it is ahead of our time. This system is becoming predominately used everyday, but
- every which way it works out this system ends up in a negative way.
- The Internet System has started to migrate in many schools. The Schools that are hooked
- online are mostly colleges. This is because the Internet is capable of flashing up pornographic
- picture or comments at anytime. Also their is many different chat lines that consist of a lot of
- profanity and violence. A majority of high school students are minors. This is why most colleges
- are hooked up online to the Internet system. The government is trying to figure out ways to
- police the Internet so this will not happen. The problem with that is it is a very hard task to do. It
- is almost guaranteed this will not happen for another five to ten years.
- Being hooked up online helps make high school easy to slide through. There is a student
- at Chichester Senior High School that has a home computer hooked online with the Internet
- system. So when he has a term paper due all he does is down load a term paper on the system
- with the same topic. He just puts his name on the paper, hands it in, and receives an A. In return
- when he hits college life he will not know how to write a term paper. This will cause him to drop
- out. I know other students do the same thing he does. Now students will come out of high school
- not well educated.
- The Internet system is set up in a way we can give and receive mail. This mail is
- called electronic mail usually known as e-mail. This mail will be sent to where you want it the
- second you click send with the mouse. The regular U.S. mail takes two days if you are sending
- mail from Philadelphia to Media. Now if you mail from coast to coast that could take up to two
- weeks. When my parents went to Mexico for two weeks they tried to send me a postcard, but I
- didnÆt receive it till the next day they came back. This could very well end up to become a
- problem. Soon no one will even want to use U.S. mail. A big part of the government money is
- from the costs of stamps. If no one uses U.S. mail ; there will be nobody buying stamps. Now
- the government is not bringing the money they need. So for that the government must raise taxes.
- The Internet system will start taking over a large amount of jobs. Through the Internet
- anyone can buy items like CDs, tapes, or sheet music. Within a matter of five to ten years there
- will not be any music stores in business. They will all be online through the Internet. The problem
- is already happening. Out on the west coast a person can go grocery shopping on the Internet.
- All a person has to do is go to the net search and type food stores. Than go to Pathmark or
- Acme, make your list, and order the food on Visa. After that is all done go to the store you
- ordered from, and pick up your groceries already pack in bags. This will eventually drift across to
- the east coast. If this happens we are looking at the biggest percent of unemployment ever.
- There is at least two hundred employees working in just one grocery store, and there millions of
- grocery stores located in the U.S. That means their will be no need for any grocery stores to stay
- in business. Where are all these employees going to go?
- When a person registers for the Internet system, they have to give their full name and
- address. If anyone wants to look up a person they can easily. All a person has to do is type
- ôfinger: e-mail numberö at the prompt. So nothing is confidential in the Internet system. If you
- start talking to someone on a chat line he could know your address. If he was a serial killer or
- burglar you are a easy target. If the person is a hacker he can find your social security number
- and change your whole identity. The movie called ôThe Netö is a good example because that
- could actually happen. That movie is about a woman who worked for a computer company. She
- spent all of her freetime on the Internet chat lines. She had a hold of a disk that someone wanted
- on that chatline. So she went away on vacation, and when she returned her whole identity was
- changed. She was a completely different person.
- The Internet system is so advanced nobody knows how to deal with the negativity. The
- government should of never allowed this system to be released until their was some way to police
- it. Now this could cause all of these problems and there is no way to deal with it happening. The
- only way people will have jobs if they know computers. Soon there will have to be blockers in
- the system to stop people from finding so much information about other people. If nothing
- happens soon their will be nothing the government can do. If there is anyway the Internet could be
- shut down till they find a way to solve these problems the Internet will work to our advantage.
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