International Internet Day

Happy Internet Day : 29th October 

                           - Pradeep Gupta 

The International Internet Day has been celebrated to commemorate a momentous day in the history of telecommunications and technology on 29th October since the year 2005. On this day the historic event of the sending of the first electronic message took place , the message was transferred from one computer to another in the year 1969. You may say that was the harbinger of Internet Era. 

Gradually, our world as well as individual lives and almost all our activities are depending  on the internet. While going to a place one ensure that he or she will have Internet connectivity .

Think about these scenarios: 

Exercising? Try this online app to measure your progress. Are you working from home? Trying to unwind? Studying? Watching your favourite shows on streaming sites? Consulting your doctor online? Whatever we do we need internet, especially during Corona pandemic.

With so much of our lives revolve around the internet, this celebration is essential to not only thank the creators for this innovative tool that has genuinely reshaped our lives. 

On this day , we should do some crystal grazing also that means that in future what will be the possible changes due to further developments in the field

both positive and negative way.

I can visualize the following changes in the coming time : 

1.Information sharing over the Internet will be so effortlessly interwoven into daily life that it will become invisible, flowing like electricity, often through machine intermediaries.

2.The spread of the Internet will enhance global connectivity that fosters

more planetary relationships and less ignorance.

3.The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data will make people more aware of their world and their own behavior.

4.Augmented reality and wearable devices will be implemented to monitor and give quick feedback on daily life, especially tied to personal health more effectively .

5.Political awareness and action will be facilitated and more peaceful change.

6.All 7-plus billion humans on this planet will sooner or later be ‘connected’ to each other and fixed destinations, via the Uber(not Inter)net. That can lead to the diminished power over people’s lives within nation-states. When every person on this planet can reach, and communicate two-way, with every other person on this planet, the power of nation-states to control every human inside its geographic boundaries may start to diminish.

7.Their is a possibility that Internet may fragment. Global connectivity will continue to exist, but through a series of separate channels controlled by a series of separate protocols. Our use of separate channels for separate applications will be necessitated by security issues, cyber policy of nations and corporations, and our continued attempts to find better ways to do things.

8.An Internet-enabled revolution in the field of learning thus creating more opportunities, with less money spent on real estate and teachers.

9.On the downside, one can see  that Governments over the globe will become much more effective in using the Internet as an instrument of political and social control. Not only that, social media apps may  create more disinformation and pre set narratives which may cause social conflicts.