Category Archives: Internet Effects

Internet+ Effects: Waining Interest in History and Increasing Awareness of the Present

Posted on February 9, 2019 by George Beam

Updated January 16, 2021 There’s lots of whining about the waining interest in history.  No one is to blame for history’s decline in popularity, and interest in history is not going to increase, no matter how shrill and numerous  the … Continue reading →

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Internet Effects On The Poor

Posted on March 12, 2018 by George Beam

The Internet is affecting almost everything, including programs for assisting the world’s poorest people.  Check out this Wall Street Journal article. So, if you want to assist poor people in the best possible way, do it via the Internet.  You … Continue reading →

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Merge with AI

Posted on August 27, 2017 by George Beam

A recent development that might help us keep up with advances in the Internet and Internet-related hard- and software (computers, smartphones, sensors, the cloud, Google, etc.) comes from Elton Musk’s “newest venture, Neuralink, a California company that plans to develop a … Continue reading →

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Effects of World Wide Web

Posted on May 8, 2017 by George Beam

“passing laws changes little, or takes a generation or longer to have effect.  Deep changes to people’s lives can be made almost instantly, however, by the introduction a new technology that everyone wants. . . . [T]he world wide web … Continue reading →

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Internet Effects: They Have, Right Now, Another You

Posted on March 5, 2017 by George Beam

The Internet and attendant hardware and software allows companies/platforms to collect data on Internet users and via algorithms reconstruct who we, in many respects, are. Moreover, we’re not able to access, modify, and/or delete our reconstructed selves. “Facebook”, Sue Halpern … Continue reading →

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Internet Effects: Smartphones Change Human Character and Relationships

Posted on October 11, 2016 by George Beam

We live in the Internet Age and this means that the Internet and accompanying hardware and software alter human character and relationships. Here are a few comments from a New York Review of Books essay, “In the Depths of the … Continue reading →

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Internet Effects On Polling and Hand-Wringing

Posted on January 10, 2016 by George Beam

Updated November 5, 2020 Review of Kirby Goidel, et al., Political Polling in the Digital Age Contributors to this collection of previously presented conference papers discuss how the Internet and attendant hard- and software accentuate limitations endemic to polling. For example, … Continue reading →

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Internet Effects: Coarse, Extreme Statements

Posted on October 9, 2015 by George Beam

One of the effects of the Internet (and now I’m quoting and paraphrasing from a Chicago Tribune article by Michael Finnegan, 10/4/15) is that it fosters coarse, extreme statements by political candidates.  After Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson, said that … Continue reading →

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