The Web: a Tool to Progress

After having the great pleasure of reading “Footprints in a Digital Age” by Will Richardson I obtained a better understanding of the main positive effects the web can have on a said person. This article addressed many points, one of which is the issue of technology taking over the lives of young children. The article also expressed that sharing ideas through the web helps the progress of society. In the article Richardson says “What we say is copyable; others can take it, use it, or change it with ease, making our ability to edit content and comprehend the ethical use of the content we read even more crucial.” I think that what Richardson is saying in this quote is that by sharing our ideas other people can take our ideas and change them a little to make new ideas. The ideas created can have the capability to change the world. The web is a fast efficient way to share ideas; therefore it is an essential tool to helping society progress and embrace the future.

By listening to others ideas I myself have been able to critique them and come up with my own, there is no question that this skill has had a positive contribution on my life. I believe that thoughts are linked, one thought leads to another. If there was no communication of ideas and thoughts we would not have nearly as many scientific break throughs or obtain some of the technology that we have today.  The ideas created lead to inventions and scientific discoveries molded from other thoughts, those thoughts had molded from previous thoughts ect. If the thoughts had not been shared there would be no idea molded to create the invention in the first place. This made me think if everyone’s in the world ideas were shared would it have a positive or negative effect on the future? I think that it would have both a negative and positive effect. The positive would be that more ideas would be created; the negative is that bad ideas would also be created penalizing the progress of the world. Conclusively, this article gave me a much better understanding of the main positive effects the web can have on the world and how essential it is to share ideas.