Evolution of the internet

             EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNET

How consumer use technology and it impacts on our life.

                               INTRODUCTION

We are living in era of advanced technology, where every part of our lives is related to science of craft in one way or the other. The development of technologies has led to many mind-blowing discoveries, improved facilities and better luxuries. It has dramatically changed our day to day lives. The various high-tech gadgets connected with the internet, makes communication faster and makes the entire world fit into a 5’ inch screen.

                   HISTORY OF INTERNET

Image 1: The image represents the various stages of the evolution of the internet. [behance.net]

February 7 1958, the secretary of defence Neil McElroy signed Department of Defence Directives. His signature launched the advanced research projects agency [ARPA] now known as the defence advanced research projects agency [DARPA].

The creation of the agency is an important moment in science history because, it led to the creation of the internet we recognize today.

1989 saw a major step forward in internet communications. Tim Berners-Lee of the European Organization for nuclear research [CERN] created the hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP], a standardization that gave diverse computer platforms the ability to access the same internet sites. For this reason, Berner-Lee is widely regarded as the father of the world wide web [WWW].

                        ACCESS TO INTERNET

Global internet usage:

The internet has been one of our most transformative and fast -growing technologies. Globally the number of internet users increased from only 413 million in 2000 to over 4.388 billion in 2019. The one billion barriers were crossed in 2005.

Image 2: Survey of the internet users and their percentage around the world. [we are social 2019]

The internet has been growing at an incredible rate. Many countries such as India, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi have doubled the number of users in the last three years. The internet history has just begun with 27000 new users every hour and many will experience it for the first time soon.

Image 3: Demographics of the usage of internet across the world. [we are social 2019]

Internet speed:

The average global internet speed is getting faster. The previous year produced a global average internet speed of 9.1 Mbps. This year, the global average is 11.03 Mbps – a rise of 20.65%. the countries with fastest internet in the word are more likely to be smaller and more developed.

Taiwan has the fastest internet speed in the world overtaking Singapore by the average speed of 85.02 Mbps.

Yemen has the slowest internet speed in the world with an average speed of 0.38 Mbps.

37 of 50 countries with the fastest internet are located in Europe. UK is in 34^th place with average speed of 22.37 Mbps.

Rise of social media:

Social media is becoming a part of day to day life for most of the modern civilized people in the world. People spend more time in social media every day. Facebook is seen to be the most popular among the social media platforms available on the internet.

Image 4: Stats from our world in data

Digital device users:

As for as India is concerned, the report found that 97 percent of users use phone as one of the devices to access internet. Increased availability of bandwidth, cheap data plans increase the amount of internet usage in mobile phones. The report also noted that the internet usage is more gender balanced than ever before with women comprising 42 percent of total internet users.

Image 5: pictures of various digital devices

Surfing the internet:

Generally, people surf the internet can be classified into three categories.

• Research
• Shopping
• Entertainment

Using Internet for research:

Most of the people especially students, use search engines like google for research purposes. They are looking for the answers, data and information to make decisions on their research work. The most popular search tools for finding information on the Internet include Web search engines, meta search engines, Web directories, and specialty search services.

Shopping:

Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser.

Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the retailer using search engine which displays the same product’s availability and pricing at different e-retailers. customers can shop online using a range of different computers and devices, including desktop computers, laptops, tablet computers and smartphones.

Image 6: various online shopping websites available for consumer

Entertainment:

        Internet is one of the best sources of entertainment. Music, videos, games, movies and socializing are provided by the internet.

1. Musical entertainment:

There are lot of sites that provide free music to all the people that wants to hear music as they work online. There are lot of other sites that give out free music files that can be downloaded by the person. This is one of the most common and well-known entertainment methods seen on the internet.

• Videos or movies:

The video clips or the full-length movie is the second most common and well-known entertainment method available on the internet. The online streaming platform allows the user to experience movies and web series with either paid or free of cost. 

• Internet games:

Online gaming is one of the most lovable features available for children nowadays. There are certain dedicated gaming platforms available for free for the users.

• Social networking:

        Social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, twitter              allows people to interact, sharing information, transfer photos, videos etc. social network is one of the most active method of entertainment in the modern era.

          Online consumer shopping habits and behaviour

Image7: data of consumer behaviour of 2019 [invespro]

                    CONSUMER TRENDS:

Image 8: consumer trends of 2019 [invespro]

Future of digital technology:

BLOCKCHAIN:

Blockchain, is also referred as Distributed Ledger Technology [DLI], makes the history of any digital assets unalterable and transparent through the use of decentralization and cryptographic hashing. Blockchain is a promising and revolutionary technology because, it helps to reduce risk, stamp out fraud and brings transparency in a scalable way for the users.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

Artificial intelligence has grown into a full-fledged ecosystem. With the automation, it brings about every aspects of our life.

The major breakthroughs that our generation has witnessed are in the service industry where the chat representatives have been replaced by chatbots. This is just a tip of the iceberg.

The customer service industry is very much excited to put the advantages of AI powered solutions to use. Not only it reduces the human effort but also it improves more accuracy and precision

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING:

Autonomous car is a vehicle capable of sensing the environment with the help of sensors and cameras and operates without human involvement. A human driver is not required to take control of the vehicle at any time, nor a human passenger required to be present in the vehicle.

Autonomous cars rely on sensors, actuators, complex algorithms and machine learning systems and powerful processors to execute the software.  Autonomous car can create a map of its surroundings based on the variety of software and sensors situated in the different parts of the vehicle.

  EXTENDED REALITY:

The extended reality is an emerging umbrella term which consists of  

Augmented Reality [AR]

Virtual Reality [VR]

Mixed Reality [MR]

And much more that are still to be created.

AUGMENTED REALITY:

In the augmented reality, virtual information and the objects are overlaid on the real world. This experience enhances the real world with digital details such as images, texts, animations etc. one can access this experience through AR glass or through tablets, laptops, smartphones etc.

VIRTUAL REALITY:

In contrast to the augmented reality, in the virtual reality experience, users are fully immersed in a simulated digital environment. Individuals must put on the VR headset to get the 360 degrees view of the artificial world that fools the brain in believing that they were walking in moon or outer space etc. that were programmed by the experts. The gaming and entertainment industry were the early adopted of this technology.

MIXED REALITY:

In mixed reality, both the digital and real-world objects coexist and can interact with one another. This is one of the latest technologies which is often referred to as hybrid reality. It requires MR headset and a lot more powerful processor than the VR and AR. Companies are exploring ways to put this technology to work to solve the problems and make their business better.

SUMMARY:

From the last decade, the technology become an irreplaceable part of our day to day life. Notice how our life is surrounded by the gadgets and tech appliances.

The PC at the desk and smartphone in our hands, wifi routers, smart watches and a lot more. All these are the examples of how technology have transformed every aspects of our life.

The technological impact on the consumers can be classified into two categories.

Positive impacts

Negative impacts

POSITIVE IMPACTS ON CONSUMERS:

The cell phone is almost inevitable. Nowadays after the introduction of smart phones in the market, these 5 to 6.5inch screen can make your life simple. This phone can do everything from taking high resolution photographs, watching pixel perfect High-resolution videos, high graphic smart phone games, browsing the internet, making a video call and even monitoring your health and fitness. It is astonishing that how this little device can manage to perform all these and tasks and also fulfill the basic communication needs and much more.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON CONSUMER:

Although there are lots of positive points about the technology there are also negative effects of technology on humans.

Although the smart phone made our life simple, it makes people lazier. The rise of dependency on these technologies make peoples life sedated and less active lifestyle as the entire world is in everyone’s hand. In this modern era, the addiction to smartphone by the young generation increases in rapidly. This is a serious issue that needs to be taken care in effective way.

The advancement made by the science and engineering community made the artificial intelligence and robotics from science friction to reality. This brings a lot more benefits to human kind and also seems to be a great threat as well.

Many experts believe that the implementation of the artificial intelligence and robotics to the industries may result in mass unemployment.

These technologies are smarter than humans. So these needs to be handled with caution and under controlled environment.

There is a chance of misusage or abuse of these high intelligent technology can result in mass destruction to human life.

The automatic cars can result in loss of drivers which ultimately result in high unemployment rate.

SOURCES:

 invespcro.com (Khalid saleh)

[2019] Economic times (Hemant metha)

Ourworldindata.org (Max rosher, Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz)

[2019] Wearesocial (simon kemp)

[2019] datareportal ( simon kemp)

[2019] Forbes ( Bernard marr)

[2012] Behance.net ( Chris Galloway)

Presentation script:

I would like to introduce myself, I am AKSHAY and I am from India.

I am very much excited to present my project.

Before getting into presentation I would like to show some interesting facts about the mighty internet.

The internet you see today is expanding faster than you can imagine.

The estimates and data released by Google have revealed some unbelievable facts about the internet.

According to google,

1. The internet consists of 9 million Terabytes of data back in 2019.

As of October 14^th 2018, at least 4.46 billion pages exist on the internet. THAT IS HUGE!!

• As of October 2018, there were more than 1.9 billion websites on the internet.

To add more numbers to the data, as of 14^th October 2018, there were around 441 million Tumblr blogs on the web.

75.8 million blogs and business sites in existence are on wordpress.

Moreover, more than 5 million blog posts are published every single day.

4 billion out of the 7 billion people on the earth are already online.

This is expected to grow even more by 2025.

400 hours of video contents are uploaded on youtube every minute.

By the time you reached this paragraph, 1600+hours of video content have been uploaded to youtube.

Speaking about the user engagement, the massive video sharing site serves more than 1 billion people every month and an average internet user spends 4 hours every month on youyube.

Let us go back to the topic.

Let me recollect the key points from the task 1.

The origins of the internet date back nearly 51 years, with the U.S military’s funding of a research network named Arpanet in 1969.

The number of computer connected to the internet has grown exponentially, while the number of users has risen from a handful of computer scientists to 1.5 billion consumers by 2010.

As the global internet usage and speed is concerned:

Globally the number of internet users increased from only 413 million in2000 to over 4.388 billion in 2019.

     Taiwan has the fastest internet speed in the world overtaking     

     Singapore by the average speed of 85.02 Mbps.

     Yemen has the slowest internet speed in the world with an  

     average speed of 0.38 Mbps.

     The social media became a part of every modern human in   

     the world.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram were seen to be the most popular among the social media platforms available on the internet.

As for as India is concerned, 97 percent of users use phone as one of the devices to access internet.

 the internet usage is more gender balanced than ever before with women comprising 42 percent of total internet users.

Internet plays a major role in research, entertainment and ecommerce.

The future of technology makes fantasy to reality.

The block chain technology and artificial intelligence bridging the gap between the so called fantasy to reality. AWESOME

The automatic driving have finally came to existance. The greates example for this technology is TESLA automatic cars.

The extended reality improves the experience of the users especially in the gaming industry.

For every technology there are both advantages and disadvantges.

The technology makes life simple, better and improves efficiency.

Smatphone gives you all the informations you need in less than 6 inch screen which is insane.

Technology makes the modern business easier and effective.

In the same time there are also some disadvantages.

The youths get distracted by spending more time on the internet which affects the academic performance.

False information and toxic contents influence the consumers which I feel dangerous to the society.

I would like to conclude my speech by saying that there will be always positive and negative points in everything.

Drinking water is good for health but

If you consume water more than the threshold level it becomes dangerous to life.

I encourage the consumers to utilize the positive influence of the technology and try to avoid the negative influence.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to express my views about the technology and internet.

 

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