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The internet has become so entwined with our everyday life that it has even had applications in the area of education. Time may come when the classroom may become more of a virtual presence type class reducing the fuel and expenses of having to physically go to school. Today, there are online courses that cater to disabled children and distance education classes in far areas of the globe where teachers are hundreds of miles away and the children in their own homes attending classes in a virtual space they get their education from. The teacher or professor gives out lectures directly citing online sources they can all share and view and the internet is a wondeful place for information. Just hope they figure out a way of ensuring the true ones from the nots (web sites) for do a search on any engine and you still end up with a lot of junk sites.

The days of the dumb search engine algorithms may be numbered for google has started some form opf semantic web searching whereby pages are ranked and submitted as results not only as the most likely ones to answer the search but analyzes the context in which the words are used giving a more exact result. Up to now, the concept of a semantic web was only in the hearts and minds of the inventors of the web but behind the scenes programmers and developers are hard at work doing just that. With some semantic processing already in effect over the web through paid searches, it is only time before they become staple of our everyday web experience.

There was a time when wikipedia was hailed as a sort of quack information source, claiming to provide credible information that is provided by users whom nobody can guarrantee that the information that was provided was accurate or totally false but the advent of the social web changed all that with more and more academics turning having a change of heart with the common good application. Today, wikipedia has been hailed as a tool for all end even educators have been endorsing the use of such media for research and other purposes due to the main fact that the credibility of the media contained within the pages have become so diverse and expansive it is hard to not take notice. The day of the social web has people helping other people the best they can and what better way to encourage change than to share information to those who need it most. True that some information on the pages of Wikipedia may be false but that is slowly changing into one of the most accurate and best of all free sources of information on just about anything on the internet. The age of free information is again within grasp of common man and out of the control of big businesses, more power people. Knowledge is power and power is knowledge!

The web application started out as a venture of Google Inc. into something trivial, the ability to accurately show this earth and anything on it to all without barriers and no holds barred. That changed when Google Earth became so updated and accurate that military forces tookl notice and told or rather requested the company to restrict views to certain levels. Today, Google earth has evolved into a tool for all to see; environmentalists aiming to show the real-time destruction of the earth, city planners who aim to study current developments in hopes of developing with less impact on the environment and the benefits are truly immense. Being able to show the world what we have made this earth of ours into is probably one of the most exciting things that you can do while browsing the web. Imagine being able to see a place almost as if you were there. Add that to all the information you can get online and you get a clearer picture of this earth and the people who live on it.

By: MJ

The next issue about the evils of technology is the propagation of computer viruses. These computer viruses are also made by „geniuses“, or highly intelligent people in terms of computers, that plan to set an annoying goal upon computers worldwide. They use unique means to spread the virus such as the USB’s that people borrow from each other. Though it may seem harmless for others, it is also not to be taken lightly. Technology now uses many virus detectors to prevent this from happening. Though we still don’t know how the coming viruses could become more upgraded and insusceptible to these prevention methods. Time could only tell.

By: MJ

Another issue is that of hackers. These are those who know their way around computers and their weaknesses but are not hackers human beings as well? There is now a clash on the use of genius and technology. One uses it for his selfishness, another uses it for the benefit of all. Since it’s not a bad idea to use fire against fire, experts have created programs that may prevent hackers from doing their job.

The battle now takes place on whether who’s got better wits than the other. Is it the good guys or the bad guys? We’ll never know for sure.

By: MJ

Aside from the fact that the authority’s method of catching the bad guys are flawed, it had also been the argument of many. There had been an outbreak of paranoia that made people fear clicking on the links. First arguments have pointed out that people who have accidentally looked and clicked on the links might ne wrongly accused by the police. Second argument goes to say that there are people who can be locked up just because of a wrong movement of the finger.

Instead of giving out security and relief, the opposite have taken place. It seems as though that fear and paranoia have been impressed on the mass.

By: MJ

The the police have formulated a „noble“ plan, still, there are flaws that need to be revised and improved. The issue of clicking their way to jail had caused a debate through those who knew of it. Though some are caught and locked up in jail, there are still people without URL’s that allow the authorities to identify them. In other words, this is a plan that doesn’t wipe-out the crime of child pornography but encourages a brand new method of doing it.

Since human beings are flawed too, there is no question that there would always be loopholes. Like technology has fought with technology, so does man need to face with man.

By: MJ

The authorities, specifically the FBI, has made possible ways on how to identify people who click on and enter sites that encourage child pornography. Anyone who clicks on these sites are to be arrested and identified by the police. This action had been noted as a „noble quest.“

Many have been arrested by the authority. This is truly a smart method of fighting crime in the Internet. Nonetheless, there is no guarantee that it is a fool-proof plan in catching everyone who enters the sites. There should indeed be more revisions on this unpolished plan on the part of the authority.

By: MJ

The technology today has been used as a gadget to help out in different areas. One of these areas is crime. There had been notorious propagandas regarding child pornography in the net. Now, technology is used to fight technology itself.

Child pornography is a site where underaged kids are asked to pose maliciously. It is no different with child abuse. It deprives the children of a morally dignified life style. This is, of course, illegal and the authorities have made way to fight it.