Year 2040

It’s the year 2040 and life is better than ever. I wake up at 7:00 AM and get ready for school which starts at 8. I stand in front of my outfitter 3560 and with the click of the button I choose an outfit. Once I have chosen one I click a button titled perfect and it appears on my body. I go through this process for shoes, bags and accessories. Now as long as this sounds it would take, I have no problem because I have this amazing watch that I say my exact destination and with the click of a button I'm there. And the best part is that it changes colors to match any outfit I have. So around 7:55 AM I zap myself in front of my classroom door. Any class I have takes you on a real life journey such as history. We are actually able to go back in time to really get hands on experience and better understand the topic of the day. Of course we can't be seen or talk to the people for that would jeopardize our beautiful future. School ends at 2:00 PM and I zap myself back home and relax.....when I realize I have a heap of homework to do! So I zap myself back to the past and watch like a movie, jot down answers and complete my history homework. Math homework is a little different, so if I need assistance I grab my 24/7 remote and type in what I need help with and a teacher appears. It's 4:00 PM once all my homework is finished. So I zap myself to a nice out of state spa and relax.

The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger?

Question #1

I believe the examples Clever lists in the opening of her essay violate our civil liberties because in some way all the examples either cross the line of privacy or protection. I believe legislation should be passed to make the types of behavior Clever describes illegal. There is no way in the world child pornography, fraud, copyright violation, antitrust or child-stalking could ever be seen as legal; these are unlawful actions, some more than others. Just because these things are done over the internet doesn’t make them any different if it were to happen without the use of it. I think the internet just gives people an easier advantage to perform these types of actions. I think that people shouldn’t be allowed to put certain content on the internet, even though some may say they are expressing their first amendment rights. And people should be more careful of what they share and do on the internet. The internet should be a safe place for anyone to use. A lot of times when searching for sites because of the name of the site or the name being closely related to something else, inappropriate sites come up. Along with that there are some copy sites; the site may look really legit or just like the site you visited the day before which was legit but this one is not.

I think it was clever of Clever to use these examples in the beginning of her essay because it really gets the reader thinking about the points she makes and really emphases the danger of the internet. Clever’s essay really shows how dangerous the internet can be. Although the internet was surely created for good, some have found ways of corrupting it.