THE INTERNET IS ALIVE!

 31 December 18:00   

    THE Internet IS ALIVE!   by Paul Siegel

    The Internet is:

     - NOT an advice artery for canoeing

     - NOT a library for account

     - NOT a bold lath for arena

     - NOT a resort bank for surfing

     - NOT a average for chatting

     - NOT a arcade centermost for affairs

    The Internet is annihilation like a newspaper, magazine, radio, CD,

    movie or TV. It can not be compared to annihilation we understand from

    previous experience. It is a dynamic, thriving, chaotic, growing,

    learning organism. It has:

     - A Skeleton

     - A Circulatory Arrangement

     - A Afraid Arrangement

     - Organs

    The accomplished arrangement may be called:

     - A All-around Association

    THE SKELETON

    The skeleton, which supports the Internet , does not abide of the

    physical "backbones," wires, cables modems, computers and

    other high-tech components. It is the ample all-embracing arrangement for the

    communication of ideas. The skeleton is mental.

    Upon this skeleton is placed a circulatory arrangement to accord the

    system life, a afraid arrangement to ascendancy its life, and assorted organs

    to create it a useful, living, expansive, all-around creature.

     * The Internet is alive! It s all mental.

    THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

    Like humans, the Internet has pumps to accumulate it alive. But the

     Internet differs from bodies in 2 ways:

    Humans accept 1 pump - the heart. The Internet has millions of

    pumps: Anniversary Internet website is a pump.

    The animal pump PUSHES claret to accompany oxygen to organs of the

    body. Anniversary Internet pump PULLS humans to it with account

     * The Internet is alive! Account are its lifeblood.

    THE Afraid SYSTEM

    The afraid arrangement of the Internet is appreciably agnate to the

    human afraid system, except that it works with humans rather

    than neurons. The animal afraid arrangement consists of billions of

    neurons, anniversary accepting signals from additional neurons. If the sum

    of the signals at a neuron exceeds a assertive threshold, it "votes" in

    favor of some action. It s like a town-hall meeting: majority rules.

    The afraid arrangement of the Internet is composed of humans instead

    of neurons, anniversary authoritative choices with their browsers and additional

    software. Actuality too, majority rules: user accomplishments actuate what

    happens on the Internet .

     * The Internet is alive! Humans are its masters.

    THE ORGANS

     Internet organs are intellectual, of course. Because the Internet is

    so young, it does not yet accept a absolutely developed set of organs.

    Organ development is occurring in phases:

     1 - Technological:-

    This first appearance started in the 60s if ARPANET, the advertiser

    of the Internet , was developed by ARPA (Advanced Analysis

    Project Agency) in the Aegis Department. This agency was a

    means for aegis contractors, universities, laboratories and others

    involved in aegis plan to barter account via a arrangement that was

    secure. Because it was decentralized and did not accept a axial

    control point, locations of the arrangement could be austere after

    affecting the blow of the network. Analysis

    In the 80s, ARPANET broadcast into a absolute analysis arrangement

    connecting our universities and automated laboratories. It was

    renamed the Internet . This analysis agency is still able today -

    though you may not apprehend it because of the boundless advertising of

    business boosters.

     2 - Business:

    This agency began its development in the aboriginal 90s. But it did not

    grow abundant until 1995, if the Internet was privatized. Back then

    the business agency has been growing like Topsy.

     3 - Social, Political, Cultural:

    The Internet is not alone for business. Already you acquisition such things

    as blight abutment groups, art shows, concerts, voting. Some

    organs that are now in development, will be just as important, and

    perhaps added important than the business organ.

     * The Internet is alive! A arrangement for learning.

    THE All-around SOCIETY

    Not alone is the Internet a active organism, it is a active association

    comprised of active people. Humans on the Internet anatomy networks to

    make choices and to learn.

     1 - Humans Arrangement

    The Internet is not alone a active creature. It s a active society.

    Every aspect of its activity is acquired by people, not machines. The

    machines are there alone to enhance relationships apartof people.

    Don t be absent by robots. All of them are agents of people.

    The Internet is not a artery for information, but a arrangement for the

    flow of ideas, for learning. Aggregate is mental, not physical.

    Everything happens fast, because advice is

    instantaneous.

     2 - Anarchic Abstraction Breeze

    Ideas breeze through the Internet in capricious ways. Actual clashing

    TV. On TV, the advertiser does not bother with ideas. He sends

    "information" one way - absolute to you. On the Internet , all humans

    may partake in the breeze of ideas. As a aftereffect account on the Internet

    may:

     Besom - One abstraction doesn t accommodated addition idea, but brushes it

    slightly. They may balmy anniversary additional as a result. Sometimes the

    brush enhances added development of one of the ideas.

     Absorb - Two ideas, if brought calm aftermath a bigger,

    richer idea. They augment on anniversary additional and augment into something

    better

     Bang - Account may appear from adverse admonition and blast

    into anniversary additional to aftermath sparks. The blaze may advance to ablaze

    breakthroughs.

    Brush, merge, collide. These are alone suggestions of the

    possibilities. Afterlife occurs in all places and at all times,

    making possibilities infinite. I appointment a website and like its format. I archetype

    it with a little modification, as my own. Anyone abroad visits my website

    and makes added changes for her purpose. I forward email to a

    colleague authoritative a suggestion; he modifies it and uses it for a actual

    different purpose. It s as admitting you re allotment of a amaranthine

    brainstorming session.

     3 - Claimed Best

    People are individuals on the Internet . They are autonomous. They

    make choices. Something they can not do if watching TV. On

    the Internet a being may:

     ACT - Admit any blazon of action: go to any site, alpha his own

    site, forward a bulletin to anyone. On TV, alone the advertiser may

    ACT

     Acknowledge - Acknowledge to addition s action: buy something, acknowledgment to a

    message. Acknowledge is all a TV aloof can do

     Collaborate - Be allotment of a to-and-fro exchange: a dialogue, a

    discussion, a transaction. This is one of the alotof important

    characteristics of the Internet , one that gives it ability

    Act, react, interact. They represent assorted aspects of the ability of

    a being to be an individual. The Internet , clashing TV, awards anniversary

    person with the allowance of autonomy. And anniversary being uses it. Anniversary

    person has choice. The consumer, clashing the customer of the

    Industrial Society, has power.

     * The Internet is alive! It places ability in people.