The Future of the Internet

The internet has changed the entire face of communication, knowledge, and technological literacy. New people connect to the internet every day, and the population of the internet continues to grow, as do its mass stores of information and data. If there is anything you want to know, like the year when Annie Taylor tumbled down Niagra Falls in a barrel and survived (it was 1901); or if there is anything you want to buy, like the first English translation of Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason,’ – everything you want to know or have is literally a click or two away.

Connection not only offers you accessibility of knowledge and goods, but it helps keep you connected with people you’d never otherwise see. As the number of people on the internet reaches nearly two billion (just under a third of the world’s population), so too does the possibility of connecting and online drugs without prescription reconnecting between people. In fact, usage for the internet as a device for social media has actually surpassed the amount of people using the internet for various forms of entertainment.

Out of the nearly two billion internet users, 42% of them are based in Asia. The people of Europe form the second largest internet-using population, occupying around 24% of the world’s bandwidth. North America comes in at comparatively modest third place, at around 13.5%. Users in Latin America, Africa, New Zealand/Australia, and the Middle East make up the last quarter of the total system, though even their numbers continue to grow.

The average North American internet user spends about an average of 60 hours online per month. That’s 30 days and nights of continuous internet usage per year. Most people who use the internet use it for social networking and media, and this trend likewise is becoming more popular and integrated into every day behaviors. We can now be connected with our phones and video game consoles, and as technology continues to develop, so too will humans continue to integrate the world’s network into their way of life. The internet will be as ordinary as cereal and rainstorms.

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