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Internet Saves Lives

You can get a calculator for less than 10 bucks these days and there is not any great reason why personal computers cost 100 times that much. But that is another topic. The real good coming out of IT is owing to the World Commons known as the Internet. Al Gore's Information Super Highway.

The Internet was created by many countries and companies but is owned by none as no country or company owns the air we breath. The Internet in-every-sense represents a commons for the world's population. Those with access have life saving tools at their fingertips and tools to counter evil. Al Gore did not invent the Internet but he did popularize it and coined the term Information Super Highway.

Its a fitting term because it can take a country with ethnic cleansing and other autrocities and transport it out of that ecosystem.

Consider Intel's billion dollar effort to put phone/computers into the hands of those at risk of autrocity.

On a cloudy day even the satellites can not see what is going on. But a thousand people with phone/computers can and they can upload - to the Internet - photos and text messages as well as naration. Unlike a regular phone or ham radio, no one needs to be listening at the time, and the evidence is hard to eliminate.

The phrase a photo is worth a thousand words means that even the illiterate can communicate with those speaking any language.

The faces of the wrong doers posted on the Internet boad well for justice as does the documentation regarding wrong doing that in printed form tends to be forgotton after a few years but in Internet form is avalable forever to be researched by Google. Truly the wrong doers might run but can not hide. The crafty may craft but eventually their documented track record on the Internet catches up with them.

Consider the US Katrina tradgedy. Not only could the population track the pending storm and make arrangements for evacuation but they could bypass the police and other agencies that acutally cut commications lines for purposes I still can not fathom as correct.

The importance of IT professionals to the world is readially appearent.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 05/04/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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