This Is What I Think...

It does seem that the trend that information is following is moving towards purely digital information. Textbooks and regular books can now be bought and read online, with every one of them safely stored and accessible by any computer with an internet connection. Even books on tape and cd have gone out of date, surrendering to mp3 downloads of your favorite book.
Looking at how far digital media has come, is it really possible to go much further? Once all information is digital and accessible by internet, what next will become digital? Will buildings, besides housing, become obsolete? Libraries buildings certainly will, even in the near future. With communication entering the video chat realm of instant communication, it seems that going to a workplace in which physical human interaction may become unnecessary and costly. It could quite possibly be that this, the new digital world, might overthrow and destroy that, the old world of physical information.

Over ten years ago, the internet was proclaimed a new world. Never before has information and opinion been so plentiful, available, and easy to enlarge. In John Perry Barlow's “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace,” a sense of anarchy that contains a true freedom is attributed to be found in the internet. At the time of its publishing, its easy to see how that idea is appealing. For the most part, a true anarchy has not been created, but in some ways, it has. Information on the internet has become too large and extensive for any government to control. There are rules and restrictions, but enforcement is very limited.
In John Whalen's “The Mayhem is the Message,” cultural jammers have just received a new tool, the internet. Never before had such a tool been utilized in this way. Today, spammers are common and any e-mail account that doesn't have a spam filter is considered useless. The expression of a want of anarchy is not a new thing that arose with the internet. There has always been people in every nation that attempt to disrupt the government and create anarchy. The only thing is that it may not be possible for any government to ever control the internet, which means that in the world of cyberspace, there is anarchy. So far, the internet has served its purpose well, but what happens when the world becomes dependent upon it completely? Will a new world of anarchy arise?