Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Interspantion

The question/criticism from class that struck me the most was: "The internet grew too fast; are there any limits left?"

That begs the question of whether the internet had any limits to begin with. I think the fact that the internet grew so rapidly was due to the fact that, by its very nature, it's a limitless universe. There is potentially unlimited amount of storage space on it for any and every type of medium.

Who is to say what should have been the speed at which the internet expanded, also. It seems like it expanded as fast as it should have. It was something so new, there was a California-esque gold rush, during the dot com explosion, but that was just a way of learning how much our society could handle.

So perhaps its better to say that the internet grew at the appropriate speed, and it is totally limitless and has been from the start.

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