The power of the Internet

I stand in awe of the power of the Internet. And you?

It is simply amazing what was achieved in such a short time. Let me draw you a picture.

Just the other day (okay that was a few years back LOL) it took me a week to get a letter off to a company in a far away country to find out about a product or service they offered. That is, is if I knew about their existence and their address in the first place. And maybe two weeks after I sent the enquiry I received an answer back. What? Yes. Still in my lifetime this is how we did business. I shudder to think that I lived in those times.

Today you sit in front of a computer in your home. You press a few buttons and find many companies offering the product or service you are looking for on the Internet in a matter of seconds. You can see pictures of their faces, premises and products. Details about all of the above. You can decide if you want to do business with them. You can in most cases contact them and get a reply in less than 24 hours. What? And in some places we still do what I did years and years ago.

Today I sat and at the same time had a conversation with a person sitting in Australia, England, South Africa and the United States. Not only did we type messages to each other but we could see each other, talk to one another and hear what the others have to say. Wonderful! Immediate world wide communication.

Simply amazing.

When I was small my parents did not have the money to buy us an encyclopedia. So the only way we could get to information to study was by going to a library. This is if you want to know anything more than the limited knowledge you learnt at school. And this was most of the time a tedious process as the library was far away.

Today you can search and get to a massive volume of knowledge by the press of a button on a computer right in your own home. You can not only get to all this knowledge, you can see pictures explaining it all and if it involves sound you can get sound clips played to you. You can see movie clips in color and with sound, explaining it all for you. So easy. There are millions of subjects that can use the internet to spread their information to all who want to lean and know. From religion to sex, from commerce to governing a country. The applications are literally endless.

And yet. Inside all of this awe and wonder we still have people who do not take advantage of all of this to learn. People who are poor in money and or in knowledge.

One of the challenges of or age is to enable the beauty and power of the Internet to reach millions of people who still do not have access to it. The challenge is not only to enable the people who do not have the monetary means to get to it, but also to enable those who have to really use it to learn and grow to better beings. It amazes me that one can have all this beauty and knowledge at our fingertips and we do not have the will to open it up and use it. I suppose different strokes for different folks is a contributor.

Every person contributing to the content on the Internet contributes a bit to this mass of knowledge that is out there. Every bit increasing to the future welfare of this earth and everything on it. Some good and some bad. Like in the rest of the world we live in. We do not only need to learn how to be street wise but we also need to learn how to be Internet wise.

And this is one of the powers of the Internet. It opens us up to more than just our own little world and our own little pool of knowledge. Beautiful.

Knowledge is power and for that reason the Internet is very powerful.

Dr. Loot Gous
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com