What doth thy future hold?

eCulture has already grown so quickly and there are no signs of it slowing down. Everyday new and better technological advancements are created, rapidly expanding the already immense internet. With blogging being the most popular form of communication on the net there is no doubt that soon almost everyone with access to the internet will have their own blog. In the future I would imagine there would be a new craze for a different online community every few months (currently mySpace). People would constantly be re-making their profiles and getting their friends on-board the newest community website. Although we make think the online communities are bringing us all closer together, so we can remain in contact with new and old friends, if too many communities are created we will soon lose track of one another. An important question to consider in the future of the internet is whether it is infinite? Can the internet become completely clogged up with boundless numbers of websites? Imagine one day when the internet has reached its full point and it crashes, the world would be left without the internet for perhaps a day or more. It would be chaos, thousands of businesses rely heavily on communication through the net, it has become a device that is highly depended on. This is a frightening thought that much of the world relies on technology, humans create technological devices but the devices end up ruling us.

Technology undeniably has so much power in the world. It can be used to benefit society but can also be very detrimental. Thanks to technology we can reach and help those in need across continents so much more quickly, but with the aid of technology we can also wipe out an entire country. The internet in the distant future may become a world of its own, people may live in a purely virtual world. Friends, communities, political groups even countries can develop on the internet; everything we need is at the click of a button. Reality may become something of a myth to those living in this virtual second world, people would enter a state of the hyper-hyper-real, where the hyper-real wipes out reality. The internet is most definitely a dominating force in the electronic world. The use of the internet may become so powerful that it will need to be governed, but imagine the problems we face in deciding who should control it. We should be careful and not let the new generations forget about reality, we don’t want to live our eLives in an eUniverse.

If we think of the internet in a Star Wars sense, I would state:

"Use the force".... but don't let it become you.