Running head: The New Renaissance: the Internet 1
The New Renaissance: the Internet
JITENKUMAR PATEL
301015147
COMM – 170 - 011
Professor Ian Kennedy
July 22, 2019
THE NEW RENAISSANCE: THE INTERNET 2
The New Re
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Running head: The New Renaissance: the Internet 1
The New Renaissance: the Internet
JITENKUMAR PATEL
301015147
COMM – 170 - 011
Professor Ian Kennedy
July 22, 2019
THE NEW RENAISSANCE: THE INTERNET 2
The New Renaissance: the Internet
JITENKUMAR PATEL
In 1994, John Starkman, the writer of the article “the new renaissance: the Internet” tried
to predict the future of new technology called the Internet that internet would change people’s
life like never before. He only consider positive aspects and completely ignore negative side of
it.
He imagine that all humankind would have access to internet in the near future and
people will feel more connected, well knowledgeable. It will become hard for dictators and
tyrants to control people’s mind by making them isolated, ignorant and scared, because “they can
censor all the books and shut down all the newspapers, but it will be much harder to control the
Internet” [ CITATION Sta94 \l 1033 ]. Yet nothing changes with North Korea, dictatorship is still
going on in North Korea. According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in 2018
only 48% of the population has access to internet. There are still so many poor countries where
people do not have access to internet because of the lack of electricity, illiteracy, poverty,
language barrier, etc. even in country like china, the 2nd largest economy of the world, has so
many government imposed restriction on access to websites. On the other hand, country like
USA had started cyberspace program called PRISM to track online activities of not just terrorist
groups and enemies but common US citizens in the name of national security threats
[ CITATION Oli161 \l 1033 ]. US even spied on activities of international politicians and
government officials to find out in advance to leverage on trade deals in WTO and G20. Big
internet corporations like google, Facebook sell public data to other big corporations to make
profit. Government also use such data to take advantage over other countries
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