Social networking, file sharing, and open source software production are all a result of the internet. The width and depth of global communication has never been larger or as easy to achieve. But how has the internet really changed society? Has it at all? There are many who would argue that internet merely gave society a new way to express behavior that has been present from the beginning. It is not the order of society that the internet has changed, merely the mode.
At its simplest, society is founded on communicating knowledge. That is why language and writing were invented. The internet is just a faster way of exchanging that knowledge. Like cars were faster than horses and the telegraph faster than letters, the internet is just a step up on the road to instant communication of thoughts, ideas, and information.
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