Random thoughts after viewing this video depiction of the history of the Internet…
‘Life enhanced’ should be the tagline for the Internet because it doesn’t actually add anything new to our lives. We were already:
- communicating
- enjoying media
- researching various topics
- sharing
- donating
- shopping
- etc.
But, it does enhance (arguably) our ability to do each of these tasks (or at least it should). So for all its newness, the Internet isn’t adding anything new to our lives, but it is changing (hopefully enhancing) how we communicate, share, relate, donate, shop, etc.
I guess our desires don’t change much throughout the ages, but our ability to express them certainly does.
