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Essay Name       : 1570.txt
Uploader         : charles scott
Email Address    :
Language         : english
Subject          : Computer
Title            : internet beyond human control
Grade            : b
School System    : penn state university
Country          : USA
Author Comments  : good paper
Teacher Comments : well done
Date             : 5/96
Site found at    : surfing
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The Internet Beyond Human Control
The Internet has started to change the way of the world during this decade.  More homes,
companies, and schools are getting hooked online with the Internet during the past few years.
This  change has started to become the new way of life present and future. The Internet system is
so advanced it is ahead of our time. This system is becoming predominately used everyday, but
every which way it works out this system ends up in a negative way.
The Internet System has started to migrate in many schools. The Schools that are hooked
online are mostly colleges. This is because the Internet is capable of flashing up pornographic
picture or comments at anytime.  Also their is many different chat lines that consist of a lot of
profanity and violence.  A majority of high school students are minors.  This is why most colleges
are hooked up online to the Internet system.  The government is trying to figure out ways to
police the Internet so this will not happen.  The problem with that is it is a very hard task to do.  It
is almost guaranteed this will not happen for another five to ten years.
Being hooked up online helps make high school easy to slide through.  There is a student
at Chichester Senior High School that has a home computer hooked online with the Internet
system.  So when he has a term paper due all he does is down load a term paper on the system
with the same topic.  He just puts his name on the paper, hands it in, and receives an A.  In return
when he hits college life he will not know how to write a term paper.  This will cause him to drop
out.  I know other students do the same thing he does. Now students will come out of high school
not well educated.
    The Internet system is set up in a way we can give and receive mail.  This mail is
called electronic mail usually known as e-mail.  This mail will be sent to where you want it the
second you click send with the mouse.  The regular U.S. mail takes two days if you are sending
mail from Philadelphia to Media.  Now if you mail from coast to coast that could take up to two
weeks.  When my parents went to Mexico for two weeks they tried to send me a postcard, but I
didnÆt receive it till the next day they came back.  This could very well end up to become a
problem.  Soon no one will even want to use U.S. mail.  A big part of the government money is
from the costs of stamps.  If no one uses U.S. mail ; there will be nobody buying stamps.  Now
the government is not bringing the money they need. So for that the government must raise taxes.
The Internet system will start taking over a large amount of jobs.  Through the Internet
anyone can buy items like CDs, tapes, or sheet music.  Within a matter of five to ten years there
will not be any music stores in business.  They will all be online through the Internet. The problem
is already happening.  Out on the west coast a person can go grocery shopping on the Internet.
All a person has to do is go to the net search and type food stores.  Than go to Pathmark or
Acme, make your list, and order the food on Visa.  After that is all done go to the store you
ordered from, and pick up your groceries already pack in bags.  This will eventually drift across to
the east coast.  If this happens we are looking at the biggest percent of  unemployment ever.
There is at least two hundred employees working in just one grocery store, and there millions of
grocery stores located in the U.S.  That means their will be no need for any grocery stores to stay
in business.  Where are all these employees going to go?
When a person registers for the Internet system, they have to give their full name and
address.  If anyone wants to look up a person they can easily.  All a person has to do is type
ôfinger: e-mail numberö at the prompt.  So nothing is confidential in the Internet system.  If you
start talking to someone on a chat line he could know your address.  If he was a serial killer or
burglar you are a easy target.  If the person is a hacker he can find your social security number
and change your whole identity.  The movie called ôThe Netö is a good example because that
could actually happen. That movie is about a woman who worked for a computer company.  She
spent all of her freetime on the Internet chat lines.  She had a hold of a disk that someone wanted
on that chatline. So she went away on vacation, and when she returned her whole identity was
changed. She was a completely different person.
The Internet system is so advanced nobody knows how to deal with the negativity.  The
government should of never allowed this system to be released until their was some way to police
it.  Now this could cause all of these problems and there is no way to deal with it happening.  The
only way people will have jobs if they know computers.  Soon there will have to be blockers in
the system to stop people from finding so much information about other people.  If nothing
happens soon their will be nothing the government can do. If there is anyway the Internet could be
shut down till they find a way to solve these problems the Internet will work to our advantage.
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