FREE ESSAY ON THE INTERNET

THE INTERNET

The Future of Internet
Table of Contents
1. Audience Page 2
2. Introduction Page 3
3. Body of Forum Paper
3.1 Influences in Businesses Page 4
3.2 Influences in Education Page 6
3.3 Influences in Communication Page 7
4. Survey Page 8
5. Reflection Page 9
6. Conclusion Page10
7. Interview Page11
8. Bibliography Page12
9. Sample of Research Project Questionnaire Page13
1.Audience
My Forum Paper was designed to that typical person who is always connected to the
Internet and has an interest in knowing how Internet has influenced our society in this
century and their lives. However it will be more directed to our traditional Gonzaga
student, who has that normal personal computer and used normally to navigate through the
Internet and would like to know how the Internet influenced our society and their lives.
This forum paper has a very simple language for easy understanding for anyone who is not
familiar with the Internet. 
2.Introduction
One of the most revolutionizing inventions of the century is the computer. Nowadays the
computer is an accessory indispensable in everyone's lives. Who hasn't used a computer
before? They are used everywhere, from banks, companies, and industries to restaurants,
schools and hospitals. But do you know computers are more used for the Internet.
According to an article published in an Internet page, "The future of computers", 65% of
the time the computer is used for the Internet. But what is the Internet? Internet
according to Oxford Dictionary is: "a system of connected computers that allows computer
users around the world to exchange information." Nowadays, one third of the world has
access to Internet, isn't that amazing! I consider the Internet the third revolution.
More than half of all the profit made by nearly every company, business, or entertainment
has been made through the Internet. In my forum paper I will discuss and evaluate the
influence that the Internet has had in our society. I will give the main points where the
Internet has influenced: communication, education, and businesses. It will also include
an interview of an expert in Internet and an survey with Gonzaga University students to
know their opinion about the future of Internet. However I will also point the negatives
points of the Internet: creation of a false economy, access to restricted information and
the damaged hackers have made to the Internet that has affected lives of many people.
3.1 Influence in Business
Internet has changed forever the way business is done. According to US trade market, the
Internet makes nearly half of all the business done in the US. People have seen that it
is much easier to buy through the Internet. We spend less time and don't have to walk the
entire mall to find the cheapest price. From your computer, you research the cheapest
price and in a few days you will have it at your home. Isn't that easy? Internet has
become a very important tool in business if not the most important. It has decreased
distances; we now can buy things from the other side of the world. For example, my father
works in a high tech company that needed a piece, to construct their new car, which was
only found in Japan. So the first thing he thought to buy the piece in less time and
cheaper by the Internet. Nowadays we have companies that only operate through the
Internet and have a bigger profit than normal companies. For example, Yahoo, one of the
most famous companies in the Internet, makes a bigger profit than the Ford Company. 
However, all this has a bad part. Some economists have been asking themselves, how does a
company that has 20 years of existence and doesn't exist in reality only in a computer
gain more than the Ford Company that has been around for nearly one hundred years? Some
economists are afraid that what Internet is creating is a false economy, where you see no
money just Internet interactions. The economists say that this economy may collapse and
consequently make a great disaster in our world market. In my opinion, what these
economists are saying is not wrong one problem of Internet business is that you can
create a false economy with less jobs than the formal economy. Another problem in
Internet business are the called "hackers" that destroy Internet pages, and can cost a
lot of money and problems to the buyers using that Internet page. For example, there was
a famous case of Chinese hackers that had access to all the major credit card companies
through the internet and bought thousand of things through the Internet using other
people card number, that he had gotten from the credit card companies.
3.2 Influence In Education
Another area that the use of Internet has changed is the way people gain education and
information. Education has changed dramatically since the invention of the Internet;
education has been redefined by using the Internet. For example, twenty years ago people
used to spend several hours in a library for example, to research about computers.
Nowadays, we access the Internet and in a few minutes we have the information we need. I
think that Internet has redefined the way people obtain information. However, we have not
only redefined the way we obtain information but also the way we transmit information.
For example, in some universities we already can have normal classes from our personal
computer. We don't need to go a classroom to learn. We just turn on the computer on the
time schedule, access the Internet and watch the class through the Internet. Imagine that
I missed an English 101 class. I wood just get the file in the Internet and watch the
class and get all the information given in that class. I think that Internet can help
students to be more effective and productive in their classes. Here in Gonzaga we can now
register and see our grades by the Internet, saving time for every one involved with this
process. The Internet can be a solution to resolve the problem of little physical space
in universities because we will not need so many classrooms. We would have our classes
from our houses. It is an alternative that Gonzaga University should take in
consideration because physical space is becoming a major problem for Gonzaga. 
3.3 Influence in Communication
Who hasn't an email account nowadays? Or who hasn't used a chat room? Internet has made
all this available to the world. It has revolutionized communication forever. For
example, we have the Internet phone, where you can make phone call from your computer to
another computer to anywhere in the world and just pay for a local call. Isn't this
amazing. For example, in my case, that I live far from home, Internet has brought me a
great benefit. Instead of paying those huge bills in the end of the month I just connect
to the Internet and make a phone call to my Dads computer and talk all night long and
just paying a local phone call. Internet has made phone calls cheaper and it has
shortened distances. In a near future I think it will substitute the phone. Another
internet tool that has changed communication is the email. According to the article " A
Email or a Letter," email has become the most used way of sending messages between
teenagers and in a near future it will become the most used way of sending messages
between all ages. Emails are becoming the most used way of sending messages. Emails are
substituting the formal letters because they are much cheaper and quicker to reach the
receiver. For example, I prefer sending an email to my family in Brazil because it is
free and they can receive it instantaneously. In the other hand if I sent a letter it
will take at least a week to get there and I would have to pay at least 20 dollars for
the mailing. Emails have become such a big advantage than the formal letter that lately,
the CNN News mentioned, that the US government is thinking in charging for email like
normal letters.
4. Survey
This survey was made with thirty Gonzaga students. The survey had the purpose to analyze
how has the Internet influenced their lives and what do they think about the Internet.
Our results were that 70% of the surveyed has a compute at home and 100% has access to a
computer. 70% of the time they are using the computer is to navigate through the
Internet.67% of the surveyed said that they had bought something through the Internet.
100% of the surveyed has an email account and uses email at least 4 times a week.
With this result we can conclude that Internet is the most used tool of a computer and
that in a near future the Internet will me the most used tool to do Businesses. We also
can conclude that email has become the most used tool to send message. It has changed
communication. 
5. Reflection
Through this Forum paper, I have developed a wider knowledge concerning how the Internet
has affect our society and the Gonzaga Alumni. Before this forum paper, I didn't have the
notion of how Internet has affected each one of us in such a strong way and how Internet
has revolutionized our society. Personally, Internet has changed and helped me a lot. The
Internet has made the world a small place. Through the Internet we have access to the
world. I can access the Internet anytime and have information from Asia, Europe or
anywhere in the world. For example, because I am from Brazil and I am studying in the US,
Internet has made me feel closer to home and always update me with news from Brazil.
Also, Internet has made it easy to me to communicate with friends and relatives. It has
made my life her much easier and closer to Brazil. I sometimes imagine this twenty years
ago. For example, my Dad was in the US eighteen years ago, I image how difficult it was
for him to have news from Brazil or communicate with his family, it must have been much
more frightening than nowadays. I am very thankful to the Internet.
6. Conclusion
Therefore the Internet, an immediate effect from the terrific invention of the computer,
has affected nearly everyone's life. It has changed business forever; we now have a much
more dynamic, fast and globalize type of business. We now can buy anything we want and
anywhere we want by the Internet. It is the future of business, where people won't leave
their homes to buy anything and have more time to do other things. In the area of
education, Internet has redefined the way education is taught and transmitted. It has
made education much more productive and dynamic. I think that in a near future this high
tech education will be accessible to everyone. We will all be able to learn from our
houses and it will also help to solve the problem of physical space in universities. And
for me, it has helped me stayed in contact with my friends and relatives in Brazil and
have news of my country and the world. However, I think that Internet have some weak
points that can be repaired, mainly in the area of business where we need to pay by the
Internet. The hackers have done serious damages to the Internet and have affected many
people that buy through the Internet. Another weak point as we have seen is that the
information in the Internet is unrestricted, and anyone underage can have access to
information that by law is only to overage. Internet designers must make a device to
prohibit the entering of underage people to these sites. Nevertheless, these weak points
of the Internet do not take the great benefit Internet has made to humankind. 
7. Interview
My Interview was made with a computer science teacher Dr. Carlos Tavora, specialized in
Internet. It was short but very instructive. One important thing that he told me is that
the Internet connection in many other countries is still very slow and not so accessible
as in the US. People in other countries are still afraid of making businesses by the
Internet. He thinks that is still a barrier that Internet has to break to become
worldwide. He also told me that Internet has changed dramatically higher education mainly
in the area of research and conferences. He said that nowadays if you are researching for
example about computers you can contact the best person in that area through the Internet
and get useful information for your research. However twenty years ago it was very
different it would take much more time to get information from other resources. To
summarize the interview he ended saying that the biggest impact of the Internet in our
society is the flexibility and accessibility of information that Internet has provided to
our society. 
Bibliography
The future of Internet, Sadek Absi,1999.
Internet,the future?Guerra,Robet.1989.