How the Internet Changed History

How the Internet Changed History — page 9
again Information traveling these fiber optic cables eventually reaches more than 3 billion people or approximately 39 percent of the world's population HOW PEOPLE SEE THE INTERNET Kevin Kelly a Silicon Valley philosopher carried out an Internet Mapping Project in 2009 On his blog he asked people to draw maps showing how they envisioned the Internet Mara Vanina Osés a psychologist and media professor at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina analyzed more than 50 of the drawings and created a system to organize people's visions She found two major approaches Some saw the Internet as a chaotic spidery web reaching into infinity Others portrayed the Internet as a village No one included the machines that compose the Internet Instead they described it as a landscape of the mind Today's Internet represents an unsurpassed revolution in worldwide communication It encompasses most important functions of the telegraph telephone radio television and computer It allows us to broadcast worldwide disseminate all forms of information and connect and collaborate almost instantly with anyone the world over Many individuals have made Long thin fiber optic cables major contributions to Internet snake up to 15 000 miles development But more important 24 100 km along the bottom the Internet came about and of the ocean carrying Internet information in the continues to evolve because form of light from continent of collaboration to continent