Ah, ya, the Gen Z and surely the Gen Alpha are not going to believe this. Yep, bro, the NET indeed is a millennial, almost in its mid-thirties! LOL! These days, siblings, whose age gap if it happens to five or six years, believe that they belong to absolutely vastly different generations! So this is gonna be a surprise (sorry, the pic-y lingo here should have been a teacher-cum-a cat with whiskers upside down, I believe !) for the kiddos. Yep, it IS a fact. The internet is indeed a millennial!
The ARPANET avatar of the internet may now appear as if it belonged to the pre-historic era or to some light-years away galaxy. Indeed the internet has galloped on the path of progress and development. This network of networks of all types, academic.org to institutional to private to public to .gov is not merely wireless nor electronic but operates now via optic networking deep below the seabed!
From thence it can manage space to galaxy, and what not. Now with its still finer version such as the AI, it can already mimic, nay, surpass, the ordinary human mind. The COVID years gave the internet and its applications such a filip (work, gaming, digital reading, OTT entertainment, shopping, and lest you forget, studying) that at times I almost feel that the Corona was not merely a Pharma conspiracy! Deeply involved must have been the AI, the chip making industry, the IoT, and what have you. Well, you do not have to be a Sherlock Holmes to realise that the bitcoin money and deep fake emerged and flourished in this 'dis-eased'era, too!
Well, the brick-n-mortar has now so collapsed in all the fields, thanks to the millennial I/T industry that students now literally carry their teachers in their pockets! Well, why talk about such obvious banalities? Look at us! We, too, are inter-connected as the author and reader(s) of this blog via the internet!
Nothing wrong with this scenario at all. Every revolution, from the Industrial to the I/T, does raise complex issues in its wake. This time, however, this millennial, the I/T and Co., is being re-born every six months, and that speed is the worry. Do not you believe me? Well, acquaint yourself a little with the genesis and the recent most avataars of the ChatGpt, the Bard, and similar versions!
Well, the problem is this technology is high-funda, but the ethical issues involved are as old and as vast as the sea and the skies! Not to worry though. Soon would emerge Gen Beta of the internet itself, and we would face yet another tsunami of changes!
Pratima@In my opinion, the growth of the internet proves that the only constant is the change!
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