We live in the age of technology. Mass communication, mass production, and mass marketing have a common place in today's society and along with these things comes an extensive flow of information. Granted this is not just an overnight phenomena, this super mass of information has grown mostly since the industrial revolution. With the globalization of the economy there needed to be a solution to this problem, the problem of stockpiling information and being able …showed first 75 words of 1667 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1667 total…internet is our best form of communication, still unfiltered, still unmediated, still raw and uncut. The internet pushes us to interact and think much unlike the television which keeps us as passive observers. Did Doug Engelbert think that the internet would turn into a global phenomena is such a short amount of time? What will the internet look like in another 25 years? Will the virtual world eventually become our physical reality? Only time will tell.