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No Speed Limit on This Information.

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At least that’s what the F.C.C said with their approval of the net neutrality rules, by voting 3-2 in its favor in the New York Times article by Ruiz and Lohr.  This was a very important ruling because now internet service providers will not be able to charge websites to increase their speed or slow them down if they don’t pay.  Being able to control the speed at which a website delivers data is a very powerful thing; the bigger corporations or media conglomerates would be able to control how we process information unless you don’t mind waiting for the other sites to load up. I mean it’s already hard to find websites that aren’t being controlled by big business, these niche sites would be quickly left behind by the faster moving giants.  This control would have also served as an added gatekeeper for information you would have to pay a fee at the gate for fast delivery.  Not to mention this would have damaged the original purpose of the internet which was (and still is) for people to share information with one another.  Hopefully reclassifying broadband or wireless connections as a utility will help keep internet service providers away for now or until they find the next loophole to try and regulate the speed of information.

Chapter 1 (Badke) & New York Times Article

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Dated June 1982, this article in the New York Times by Robert Reinhold goes into details about technology and how it could transform society. Today in 2015; in my opinion we as a society have already reached a conclusion with respect to technology and how societies transformations by modern technology are in full force and we are all being affected daily.
But does modern technology really change the true meaning of family time and life; as suggested in the article; the author mentioned the “profound effect commercial television and automobile had on society in earlier centuries,” In my opinion, I believe anyone living in this century will not want to be stagnant and live where there are not changes and exciting innovations made available daily to them.
I can say from experience, that electronic information made life easier for me in general. In my opinion, the effects on society will be sometimes overwhelming but if you look at he bigger picture recent, modern and emerging technologies can be very beneficial to society as a whole.
William Badke, in Research Strategies wrote about several issues and notions to take into consideration with dissecting “WWW” and its gatekeepers. Electronic information having gatekeepers can hurting the quest for information especially for scholars. I use WWW several times daily and Mr. Badke’s detailed information about accessing and sharing information using technology uncovered information that I was not aware of. I truly believe as stated before that all information related in both articles can be either good or bad and one must educate themself in order to make right choices when it comes to using modern and emerging technologies.