Is There Really A Need For Wireless Internet In This Society | The Communication Blog

Monday, September 13, 2010

Is There Really A Need For Wireless Internet In This Society

By Brian Lakeman

There are so many wonderful benefits of wireless Internet access, after all we are a society on the move and so we want our gadgets to be able to go with us. Whether you're using your iPhone to display information on the closing prices of the stock market or to open the local grocery store circular, one thing is sure once you have one of these devices you will use it almost anywhere you go.

Children are even growing up in a world that is much faster than the generations that came before. Most of them have a cell phone with wireless Internet by the age of ten years, but what will be the long-term ramifications of this trend. Many would say the world will just get more rapidly spinning out of control but from the hype when computers first came out about making humans obsolete, we may not need to give much credence to this concern.

There are questions that probably should be looked at however, issues such as how this will affect things like customs. If you have a child, then you probably have noticed that they never seem to stop sending text messages. At the dinner table, in the car, or even in the store all OMGs are critical and all updates on the person's social situation is urgent. Many adults have become rude when it comes to using cell phones and the more acceptable these devices are the more rude society at large will become; text messages and making telephone calls instead of real social interactions with the people standing in front of them.

And the language? Well, let's just say that the English language is about to take a real hit during the next decade as most who text use abbreviations to communicate with their friends and silent letters and vowels are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Children and teens have discovered that many of the letters are not making sounds anyway so dropping them will reduce the characters in a text message allowing them to write more. Also, things like punctuation and sentence structure will dissipate as well.

Of course, there is really little we can do to stop the wheels of change, and personally I would not give up my access to wireless Internet for all the tea in China, but the consequences of the use of Internet phones and text messaging are really things that can change the shape of the world we know.

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