After learning a whole lot more than the average person about the internet, I see how much of our daily lives have been affected (effected? I still have a hard time knowing which one to use) by what was once top secret technology built for the military.To type up this blog post I am using the internet which was once developed as a type of communication that wasn’t threatened by the destruction of a single point. It seems strange that one of the biggest, the biggest perhaps, leaps on technology really begun after the last world war. There were a lot of steps in between of course and it was probably set into motion before the war started but I can see World War II as being the catalyst for the invention of the internet.

Thinking about the internet also brings up thoughts of other large events, and inventions, that came about because of fear. Fear is a large motivator when you look back on history, I think fear really forces people to move, fight or flight. Like the installment of federal highways, which was needed at the time to be a way to get across the US and move troops throughout the country. Is it a bad thing that fear is such a great motivator? The things that come out of it can be great, I mean the internet opens up so many options for people and ideas, Is there a difference between an invention that was created to help others and an invention that was created in case of emergency? I don’t know, got to think about that.

Vannevar Bush is basically my new hero, the things that his brain was capable of thinking up back in the ’40’s is just astonishing. I don’t even really understand how cameras work, sad to admit, and Vannevar was already thinking how the future was going to change photography as he knew it. Vannevar’s attitude towards the internet, as a tool to assist in the storing of information and how someone could better access the growing amount of information that future would certainly bring, is definitely not based on fear. This is in opposition to Carr’s view of the internet, something potentially dangerous, that could alter our brains for the worse, and that almost controlled the user more than the user controlled it. Well this user isn’t afraid of the internet and its brain altering ways.