How,the,Internet,Has,Changed,W DIY How the Internet Has Changed the Way We Waste Time
When starting a new work at home business it is very easy to become consumed by it. We spend so much time trying to get the business up and running that we may end up becoming burned out and lose our motivation. There is so much to learn and Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in
To see how much the internet has changed life as we know it you have to look at the simple things. Sure, we have stuff like live video streaming services,and you can listen to radio live from just about anywhere in the world,but that stuff is the stuff you tend to think about everyday. Instead,just take a look at all the stupid little distractions that livestreaming video has given us in the last decade. You can check out justabout anything online. As we speak I am watching a live webcam of ababy panda from the San Diego Zoo. Cute? Yes. Unnecessary? Absolutely.But if there is anything that is indicative of the age of theinternet, this is it. You now have literally millions of ways of wasteyour time, and you can access them anytime you want. And frankly, thereis nothing wrong with this. Dont get me wrong, distractiondid not just begin with the internet. Let me tell you a little story Iheard when I was on a family vacation back in the late 90s. On acruise to Alaska we had an excursion day in Juneau. During ourexcursion we hired a cab to take us around and see the sights. Duringone of our stops our cabbie told us a story about how the local cablesupplier had an open channel which they decided to fill with a livecamera of a fish tank while they tried to negotiate a real network tofill that slot. About six months later they finally filled the channelwith a real entertainment network, hence taking the fish tank off theair. To the cable suppliers surprise they were bombarded with calls andletters from locals demanding that they bring the fish tank back.Apparently they became so attached to the fish tank that they watchedthe channel religiously. To me, stories like this prove thatthere is always a market for these live animal webcams online. Webcamsshowing everything from pandas to buildings to trees to, yes, even fishtanks gets thousands of viewers daily. Do they make money? Who knows,but they show where technology has taken us. But this is just the wayit goes with technology: each medium starts out as a way to getinformation out and then as it advances in comes other sources and,eventually, distractions. When television was created it was threechannels. Now, there are 500-1000 channels and no lack ofdistractions on the airwaves. Heck, even the news channels areentertainment based. This is what happened with theinternet. Once people got use to webcams and e-mail, then came webbased entertainment and around the clock web coverage. Where will theinternet in the future? Who knows, but I know that Ill be therewatching it.
How,the,Internet,Has,Changed,W