A Detail Look Into The Internet And Where It Is Headed!

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newsstands�(Bergeen 3). The television was invented on the heels of radio. �In 1920 the first primitive TV�s were born, however the media did not become persuasive until the 1950�s when they became more affordable�(Strate 2). They soon replaced the radio as the media form of choice.
The newest and currently most controversial form of mass media and communication is the Internet. �The Internet has linked sources of information around the world and with the progress made in telecommunications and personal computing, these information sites have become accessible to the common man�(Bergreen 10).
We live in a world bursting with new and often brilliantly conceived technology. As soon as we master one technology, we move on to the next, expecting it to make are current obligations easier and less time consuming. We move so quickly that we do not see the dangers that we create, we are not aware of how advanced technology eventually becomes invisible, and obsolete! As a society we need to ...

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the minutiae of older technologies like television.�(Kirsner 1).
The assembled writers agreed that the cyberspace beat itself will likely disappear as technology stories seep into every section of the newspaper. �For example, retail reporters will cover electronic commerce, and health care reporters will offer pointers to the best medical site on the web�(Kirsner 1). Amy Harmon a reporter for New York Times, suggested that newspaper coverage of the Internet has gone through three phases. �The first was a ��definitional phase," in which stories simply proclaimed, "Hey, the Internet exists. Look." Then came the "frontier phase," when reports would send back dispatches from the ...

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