Many Faces of Internet..Good,Bad,Ugly..

The Sunday edition of New Indian Express has a cover story on the impact of internet,

"The Internet by being the most powerful tool invented, so far, for better knowledge sharing and collaborative working allows the human brain to work as a collective whole. And that is the greatest technological invention of Internet times: the collective human brain working from different parts of the world, in unison."

Thanks to the Internet, we have BPO's...

"...if there was no Internet, there would be no BPO Revolution. And without the BPO's, there would be less disposable income in the hands of the people from the developing world. It's the Internet that makes it possible for companies to get work done from a labour force spread across all corners of the world. Thanks to the Internet, we have BPO's. Thanks to the BPO's, more people have money. More money, means more economic activity for more people. And more of the trickle-down effect of economic development. "

The Internet as a social engineer,,

"..The Internet is media. And while we may like to think we make the media, it's often the reverse that happens. We form our impressions of Michael Jackson based on what we're fed by the media. The media social engineers us into believing what we believe about Michael Jackson. The media is now more fragmented than ever. We have more places than ever before from which to get our news. We can choose whom we want to help us make up our minds. The Internet is, today, the most powerful tool in this process of making up our minds. Every society is socially engineered by it's media. "

The Internet as an Industrial revolution ,,

"The Industrial Revolution allowed us to do less by helping us do more, through machines. The Internet allows us to do much, much more by bringing even more things to our desktops. If a machine made spinning yarn easier, the Internet makes buying yarn, even easier. Whereas the Industrial Revolution introduced us to the concept of boredom, for the first time, the Internet allows us no time to, even, be bored. Think about it, hasn't time become the biggest casualty of our age? So much so, you don't even have time to think about it! "

Lastly, The Internet as a nuisance,,

" The Internet is to our lives what the TV is/was to living room conversations. Why is it to our lives what TV is/was to living conversations? If you don't have the Internet, you're probably a lot more socially adept. It's the constant connectivity enabled by the Internet that makes the Internet such a nuisance. That makes weak humans want to keep checking for email, keep wondering whether they're wanted somewhere, and keep getting distracted from what they're doing by the thought of what they're missing. Without the Internet, the pressure to be connected wouldn't be the irresistible nuisance it is. It's always there, in front of you, enticing you, tempting you with the forbidden in the land where nothing is forbidden, and most things free. "