Unless the mouse clicks on the story, the account will not materialize" (Gup 480). Everywhere you go you hear about the Internet. So much information is passed up due to this easy access phenomenon. Computers and the internet are slowly taking over. Soon teachers will no longer be needed to stand in front of a class room to educate. Neil Postman, a professor in the School of Education claims, "School teachers, for example, will, in the long run, probably be made obsolete by television [ . . . ]" (487). .
There is so much information on the internet. It is like a large bulletin board, and everyone has something to say. There is an abundance of false work and personal information. . There is no way of knowing if everything you read is the truth or someone's false work. People are on the internet all day and fill there heads with false information and are often mislead. In his essay, Informing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman states: .
The situation we are present ly in is much different. [.] There is no consistent, integrated concept of the world which serves as the foundation on which our edifice of beliefs rest. And therefore, in a sense, we are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Information used to help people. Now, with the internet and the freedom of speech, so many people are misinformed. People no longer have privacy of personal information either. Everything from social security numbers to credit cards of people can be found on the internet. Since the internet is easily accessible, identity theft has become a big problem. "Information is now a commodity that can be sought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status" (Postman 492). The world is now a open book and anyone is free to read it.
