At my place of work, the fellas seem to have a limited and also childish perspective of the Internet and what it is used for. Let me explain, anytime one of these co-workers see me on my smart-phone (iPhone) and they assume that I am surfing the web, the first thing out of their mouth is “Hey what-cha you look’n at Porn?”. Look, I don’t know if it’s just these guys that I work with or that its just that alot of people really don’t know that the internet can be used for more.
It is amazing to me that this wonderful piece of technology is right there in front of us and is getting more available and easier to access, but some individuals only see one use for what could be called a “Collective Thought Stream for Pleasure”. I would like to rename what I just called the “Collective Thought Stream for Pleasure” the ““Collective Thought Stream for Knowledge”. And that’s just what it can be used for, shared knowledge. I know what your thinking this is starting to sound like the “Borg” from the classic TV series “Star Track”. That’s not what I’m talking about. What I am trying to say is that we should be sharing knowledge across the Internet. I love Franklin’s perspective on shared knowledge “This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repaired in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me.” Ben Franklin. Franklin believed in public library's. And the Internet is the modern version of the library in my humble opinion. Actually it has become more than just that. You can shop for shoes, clothes, insurance, talk to others, back-up your computer, gaming, and even “Google” and “Facebook” can spy on you and then call it marketing research. I think it is exciting to think what all the new uses the web can be used for like making Money!
