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The Power of the Internet

I was just recently looking at my stats, and it seems that I have been visited by over 70 countries. Sure, many of my visitors might not have enjoyed my posts, or spent a lot of time here, but the fact remains that I more or less have reached countries all over the globe. This is what really inspired me to write this post. We each hold in our hands the power to immediately broadcast to the entire world. This is a first ever in history. This also means that for the first time ever, our parents have less experience in a field than their children. Think about it, in every specie on Earth, the parents would’ve experienced everything their children is experiencing… expect for the human race in the 21st century. This relatively new ability that we have gained is really miraculous. It’s a miracle. You are reading something that is immaterial. You can’t hold this in your hands, this is made of almost nothing. You can read this from anywhere on the globe, or even in space aboard the ISS. This blog is a miracle.

Speaking of miracles, I am a miracle. You are a miracle. So many things needed to go right in the right order for us to physically exist. In fact, this world is a huge miracle, The very fact that we are able to exist, to have the necessities to live, to build a civilization, to have this piece of technology that you are using to read this, is a miracle. A lot have changed in the past year for me personally, but I think the most important thing I learned is to live. To live this miracle, no matter how things are, no matter what is wrong, or what is right.

LIVE!

So get out there, and do what you have to do, and live. Enjoy as much of this miracle as you can. Make it count. Make this gift count. And help other people live too. Anything, from small to big. I can say from experience, that a gesture, no matter how small, counts. Live, and help those around you live. I think that is the most important thing… ever.

A Strawberry

It’s hard to imagine that the whole entire internet only weighs the same as a strawberry, but it’s true.

First, something a bit smaller. According to John Kubiatowicz (a scientist), the Kindle technically gains 0.000000000000000001 grams of weight when it is filled to its capacity (4GB).

The internet at any given moment weighs 50 grams because of the electrons in motion.

To me, the guys who figured these things out must have been incredibly curious and had nothing to do at the moment, I mean, when would we ever need to know how much the internet weighs? Or that the Kindle gains an amount of weight so minuscule that our most accurate scales can’t measure?

Here’s the link to the Kindle report: click me!

Here’s the link to the strawberry report: click me!

And here’s the video:

The Internet

The internet is so powerful and it is capable of so many things. It is amazing what it can do.

The actual video:

This is just one of the many samples of the Internet.

The most important thing about the internet is that now we can communicate even easier than ever. We can know what happened seconds after it occurred. If a plane crashed, seconds after, reporters and journalist would do live blogs and reports updated minutely, allowing us to know what happened no matter where we are.

Communicating through the internet can also mean life, when death was supposed to happen. If meteorologists predict an earthquake is going to occur, the public can be warned and cautioned. The Internet really saved us.

It’s also easier to get famous, or be heard. With one click of a button, you can tell the world anything.

But with any privilege is responsibility. This is why it is so sad that the Internet is abused everyday. Every good has a bad, every bad has a good. There are people who put or take stuff they shouldn’t.

I believe that the world has gone too long trying to make the people better. Our thought has been “if the people are better, the world will be better”, but from experience, it just can’t be done. Laws too, they were meant to be broken, if they weren’t, we wouldn’t have created fines and punishments for when we do break the law.