Intenet and globalization
Is Intenet a Tool Serving the Aims of globalization?
Well, the question in the title seems to be have no single answer. Today internet is able to penetrate into every inch of our lives, which is true for even the countries with the most restrictive measures on access.
Beyond the discussions as to the use or misuse of the internet, there stands the inevitable truth: being online is an inevitable part of our daily routine, which is almost considered to be one of the basic human rights. Just like breating we no longer care about the gases on air, we just take it for granted.
As opposed to the case in point, some argue that one needs to ask after so many years online how many people have become Americans, losing their native identity, or how many of you have acquired a British attitude to life.
Which cultural norms, how many traditional practices have been lost so far as a result of internet? We don’t have a list yet and they doubt we will ever have one.
The rooms we walk into in the magic world of the net offer so many options that assimilation is not so simple to achieve. From the stand point of these people Internet resembles life itself. The problem is not what some people are trying to do but what the user chooses to believe.
On the other side of the scale, there are the ones who firmly insist that the net is an instrument of the powers who want to shape and rule the new world order. These people are the designers who are well aware of the weaknesses of human nature and internet is their overall construction site.
The assimilation on a large scale as the one carried on the net would not be possible with any other tool created by human race. It is an attractive trap, a long term domination project.
It seems as if this debate has a long way to go. The arguments of both sides have some interesting aspects. Considering world’s history internet is now too young to display its large scale consequences regardless of the underlying intention. What we need to do is to wait and see.
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