Post #4 Internet for All or All for Internet?

            After reviewing the Internet logs of my classmates and my own, I became kind of confused about what the definitive purpose of the Internet is. In many instances, I saw the Internet contributing to real world life: weather reports, homework, sport updates, directions, answering random questions asked by random brothers. In this case, I saw the Internet as making life present itself at a closer and more personal reach to us. This link of various sources around the world seemed to serve as a servant to humans, lending a helping hand to its dominant creator. This comforted me. I felt like technology was a completing piece of the definitive, whole world, but then I looked again. This direct movement from computer to outer world began to become skewed. I saw logs like, checked Facebook, checked Gmail, searched Youtube, and computer dead. It was as if this Internet was a pet that we checked on and took care of, even mourning its mortality. I felt less comfortable. We created something that seems to now be creating us. Instead of using a computer to move out to the world, I found that people are using the world to go deeper in to this web of energy. This realization brought me to an interesting hypothesis: Do we become the tools to our tools? In other words, do our objectives only beget other deeper or shallower objectives? It is definitely comforting to think that I control the dialogue between humanity and technology. Nevertheless, I think there might be more truth in thinking of the tools we create not just being support for our life, but also taking a life of their own. At times, we can be unwillingly controlled by our machines, like flies to light bulbs.