Consequences of the Internet :
(Based on Park Kyu-tae’s insights)
- it is the world’s largest, integrated machine
- it is a communicational network connecting virtually all computers around the world, at equal status
- allows for the reception and delievery of messages anywhere and anytime, at virtually any place and it’s all done in real time
- has created the convergence of digital multimedia, informations and communications, impacting social activity as we know it
- it was a tool created for military purposes, but grew to establish itself and excel in the domains of government and especially in commerce
- it has expanded the world of publication with new electronic forms of media including digital bookes, digital magazines, digital newspapers, etc.
- the rate of current Internet usage in the world is approximately 20.8%, it is 70.2% in North America, and 66.5% in South Korea according to World Internet Statistics
- the Internet has now become the primary tool in quenching one’s thrist for knowedge in general leisure and in the business world
- perhaps most importantly it has created communites outside of physical realms
