Module 10

Jacob Ready

Module 10

IST 1100

Module 10

     This story was written in 1946 and it was very surprising to me reading it and seeing how much it is like our internet today.  It talks about A logic named Joe it is about a computer that produces Logics which are a lot like our computers we have today. It talks about how the company has a filter on in where the people in the company have access to it but that was until Joe shows up and allows the public to see anything they want to make the searches that they ask for to be more accurate.  I feel like this is almost identical to what we have as our modern internet.  You can literally search anything you want now. It is disgusting thinking about the images that have been posted on the internet today and how so many people can view and search for anything.  We wonder how our criminals are so smart and how they can find ways around the system to receive illegal weapons and build bombs.  Well all of these so called illegal things can be found on their home desktop.  It scares me to think about all the things that can be bought.  After reading this article I learned a lot about how amazing this all used to sound to people back in 1946.  This story would have scared me to death is I had read it back then and to think only 10 years ago we didn’t have cell phones and now I pretty much have a computer in the palm of my hand.  I think that sometimes we would be better off censoring the internet even thought we lose part of our freedom by doing this. But I realize that there is a point the censoring and I think that China is a perfect example of a better way to censor things.  I don’t think we need to take it to North Korea level or anything but just being able to watch what people are searching for would probably be in everyone’s best interest.

     The potential for our internet is beyond what our minds can imagine yet we have the few criminals who like to mess it all up.  But I think overall our internet is going to make us more involved with everyone around us and allow us to be more efficient in everything we do.