The book now talks about how even though we ask for things to be in writing form. We still are very suspicious of it. One example the book gave of why we are suspicious is counterfeit money. Due to once we see how it so closely resembles the real thing we do not question it. Without the proper knowledge of identifying the real from the fake many people have been ripped off.
Next the book talks about the appearance of the World Wide Web along with the other inventions that have appeared due to the web. An example that the book gave was email and how when it first came out people would not really have any etiquette as with talking to one another. Then finally some people set some rules of email and netiquette which are similar but slightly different. With the invention of blogs more and more students and children in general prefer blogs on the computer to writing them down. Which I do not truly know because I did not keep a blog until one was required.
The last part the book focuses on is about Google and others putting books online. The fact that now even older texts and newer ones are put online is a wonderful thing. The ability to look up a text whether it be Shakespeare's plays to the Twilight series has made the internet even more invaluable to the world. I can not wait to see how the internet will change the world.
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