In We Are The Web, Kevin Kelly, takes an interesting review of how the experts in technology got the evolution of the Internet wrong. He goes back to the 1990’s when the Internet was not even understood by the computer experts. It just amazes me how wrong experts were. For example Kelly talks about an article published in 1994 by Time Magazine. In this article the author explained “why the Internet would never go mainstream: “It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals”. So many experts cataloged the emergence of the web as “baloney”. Wow! Even experts were dead wrong. One thing that I found questionable in this article were some statistics about who the Internet uses are. Their surveys have found that the majority of the Internet users are females. I agree with his findings. However, I don’t agree with the findings that teenagers don’t really use the Internet. The article says that “Internet is not and has never been a teenage realm… in fact; they say that the average Internet user age is 41 years old. I don’t agree with these numbers and there are many reasons why I don’t agree with these figures. First of all, we know that for the most part teenagers tend to be the early adapters of technology; they are the ones who have the latest gadgets, the most recent cell phones, computers, or the most recent games. Thus I think some of the findings are not really accurate, however, the article is really interesting. It really shows who much the internet has evolved since the 1990’s. At first, Internet was seen as a medium of communication for the elite, now it is a communication medium for anyone, to do just about anything. It is unimaginable the things we are able to do Online thanks to the creation of the Internet. Now people buy, gamble, watch movies Online, do their banking, dating, play games, chat, and get information about anything they want from everywhere they want. It is just amazing. Finally, equally important, the future for the web evolution is unimaginable that not even the most knowledgeable experts in technology are able to accurately predict it.
