The internet has made our life easier, less time taking and effective. Besides the addiction to the net or the mal use, the internet has big effects on our society.  In addition, new technologies bring new methods and effective stuff to the society for example before to be able to know what is going around in the world, you had to go make lots of researches. However, now a days the idea of the media is to give the faciltity to know what is going around just using the network, it creates enormous positive effects.Shirky showed me something that i never knew, there is more freedom in the net , the freedpm of speech and press. The internet doesnt make you smarter however, it makes the future worth.