About Internet, one can say what has already been said about the invention of the steam engine, the telephone or the television. One believes in a radical upheaval ways of thinking, then there is only a change of habits. The Romans knew neither the printing press or the telephone. It is not so far as their mode of thinking was radically different from ours.
The technique, including that applied to the communication, blurred the view that the world has on its own history. The printing has probably helped a wider dissemination of knowledge. But it has not promoted the establishment of this knowledge.
The only thing that can be fear about the Internet, is that it will lead some minds to confuse the real and virtual, to not only live through screens, which have no soul, no intelligence, or sensitivity...
Anyway, internet gums distances. The information is circulating at the speed of electricity. The world, as planned Marshall Mk Luhan (Canadian educator, philosopher), became a village. I can instantly interact with a person resident in the opposite poles. He/she becomes my neighbor. The cyberspace dissolved the old thinking patriotic, nationalist, individualistic.
Some surgeons have successfully realized extremely delicate surgeries, thanks to informations provided from foreign specialists; informations which came to them in real time.
Internet brings man together. It is a cure for the loneliness, the characteristic symptoms of our time. Thanks to it, one can find a person to speak with, at a time when one needs.
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