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In the 2000s the Internet grew to an astounding level not only in the number of people who regularly logged on to the World Wide Web (WWW) but in the speed and capability of its technology. By December 2009, 26 percent of the world’s population used the Internet and “surfed the web.
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The rapid growth of Internet technology and usage had a drastic cultural effect on the United States. Although that impact was mostly positive, the WWW caused many social concerns. With financial transactions and personal information being stored on computer databases, credit-card fraud and identity theft were frighteningly common.
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Hackers accessed private and personal information and used it for personal gain. Hate groups and terrorist organizations actively recruited online, and the threat remained of online terrorist activities ranging from planting computer viruses to potentially blowing up power stations by hacking computers that ran the machinery. Copyright infringement was a growing concern
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EBSCOhost: Information technology and the year 2020 - 0 views
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Looks at the possible changes in education with the advances in information technology. Examination of the evolution of information technology; Overarching idea of digitization; Trend towards abstraction, knowledge and intelligence; Difficulty in forecasting the social impact of technological advances; Implications for educators.
Wireless broadband - changing business in Africa and the Middle East - Connect-World: t... - 0 views
Politics Faces Sweeping Change via the Web - 0 views
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American politics is transforming due to the Internet. The White House notices changes with the elections through the prompting and rewriting of rules on advertising, fund-raising, and mobilizing supporters. Unfortunately, it also helps the spreading of negative information on Democrats and Republicans.
Top 20 links: ways the web has changed the world - 0 views
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Before the World Wide Web the Internet really only provided screens full of text (and usually only in one font and font size). So although it was pretty good for exchanging information, and indeed for accessing information such as the Catalogue of the US Library of Congress, it was visually very boring.The World Wide Web made surfing the web a fast and easy way to get information
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This article gives you 20 ways how the world wide web changed the world for people today.
A Day on the Internet: What Have You Done? - 0 views
BBC News - Web and email monitoring plans will not be rammed through, says Clegg - 0 views
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A ;new proposed law in the UK wants Skype and social networking sites to be required to keep communications for 12 months. I am thinking this would also apply to Twitter. Understandably, privacy concerns swirl around this proposal. "Ministers say change is needed to help fight crime and terrorism, but critics warn it is an attack on privacy. Internet service providers (ISPs) are obliged to keep details of users' web access, email and internet phone calls for 12 months, under an EU directive from 2009. Although the content of the calls is not kept, the sender, recipient, time of communication and geographical location does have to be recorded. The proposed new law - which the Home Office says will be brought in "as soon as parliamentary time allows" - would extend those requirements to social networking sites and internet phone services such as Skype."
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The app-driven life: How smartphone apps are changing our lives - 0 views
How Tech Has Changed Our Lives - 1 views
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