Web 2.0

After watching the video "Web 2.0", I realized how far the Internet has evolved. It was simple looking and the commands were simple to build a web page or site too. Now, with the elements such as Quick time, video, streaming live music, uploading photos instantly, society has definitely changed the purpose and utility of the Internet. With these changes, we can make the Internet as personalized or mysterious as we want it to be--whether one wants to show everything that he or she is to the world, or to show how simple one can be. As long as we know how to control all the commands and can enter it into our desktops or laptops, the web has endless possibilities.

Even for someone my age, it is amazing but kind of scary what the future will hold in terms of the advancements that the web will experience. Not only will it become easier to communicate instantly with others for pleasure, it will instantly become more of a threat to our security and privacy of our personal being--not to mention the security of jobs. New technological advances will always make the older workers along with the younger, technology-illiterate workers (like myself) scared of being ousted out of the workforce. Manual skills like handwriting, doing math by hand, developing photography in a black room to produce photos to share, and making videotapes for mass distribution will be obsolete because of the web. Society in the future will have to focus on more digital training for the workforce instead to manual labor.

So, if a person can not keep up with the advancement of the web, to the unemployment line he or she will go...