Blackout! What do we do?
In The Only Good Technology is No Technology – 7 Wonders of Invisible Infostructure, it states that we are going in a direction that the technology we are using and soon will be using is slowly becoming more andmore invisible because we don’t even know we are using it as much as we are.
Technology has grasped Americans and the way we live and the way our country runs and works. A blackout of technology and Internet failure would send a panic attack throughout the country, leaving everyone with a sense of disconnection from the rest of the world.
“I suspect we are actually beyond a reasonable time frame where there won’t be some disruption. It’s just a question of how much,” said David Conrad, general manager for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, being quoted from IP address shortage to limit Internet access.
Businesses, universities, the government and other agencies would forget how they once ran without Internet. People forget that yes, there was an age of time that Internet did not exist. The problem is that people are unwilling to reverse the path of technology and the Internet. As soon as it was invented, and then the birth of Web 2.0, the American people would find it extremely difficult to go back to the time before it.
With the economic crisis we are now facing and the presidential election coming right down to the wire, the effects of an Internet outage would be very damaging. The US would be in a very vulnerable position to the rest of the world with the predicament of Internet causing commotion to the people and businesses and the overall operation of America.
Technology and what it has in store for the future of journalism
Are technology and the Web, together, separating their distances from journalists? Blogging brings new ways to get information and in new forms.
There are many pros and cons in the argument of bloggers vs. journalists and to which one the future of journalism may apply. It seems that anyone can be a blogger if they really wanted to. It takes more than wants and needs to be a journalist; it takes a college degree, for example, and some real effort. Anyone can seem to be a blogger.
In Bloggers v. Journalists, journalists can choose to get into blogging, while bloggers can be journalists. The future in journalism rests within the walls of the World Wide Web. Blogging allows the audience, or the people, to give feedback and corrections to the certain news piece.
Going even further, the future of technology within the field of journalism may have been transformed by computational media. Blogging will lead to a unique thinking style where the Public Relations department is not the only place to receive information for the media. Information about a blogger is also more likely to be accessed than information about a journalist.
Bloggers could be a tremendous problem for journalists in the near future, as if they weren’t a problem for them now. The future of receiving the news rests within the walls of blogging.
