Just Another Medium?

Why are we all complaining when we have it so easy? We have the world at our fingertips, yet we are scared to use its full potential. Look at all the information the Internet holds for us. The future is just past this door of research, which can be opened with a key right before our eyes, the Internet. Before, we had to knock down this door with an ax, but now we have a key to make it easier to open... Yet some of us hesitate. “If I use this key to open the door, I might lose all my arm muscles." How ridiculous does that sound? Third world countries do not have the knowledge we do, especially when so many of them lack access to the Internet. Citizens living in Palestine or Bangladesh barely get a proper education, unlike us who already know that we will be going to college.

My point is, look at how much potential we have right now because of the worldwide web. There is a sea of research and knowledge out there, and we have yet to discover more. Even now among us, this AP English blogging assignment involves the Internet. All that we need is more self-discipline and control. If one can fast without food or water, basic human necessities, for long periods of time, then the same can be done with the Internet.

Initially, I agreed with Carr in The Shallows about the Internet's corruption, but several days after finishing the novel, I questioned my own perspective. The Internet has done more favors to the world rather than destruction. In the past, printing presses and books, other mediums mentioned by Carr, were looked down upon and thought of as corrupting by many, yet now the world exalts them. Do you not think several centuries, if not decades, later the world will exalt the Internet the same way as another medium?