Internet Dystopian Research Paper

Indeed, Internet has become a major part of one’s everyday life. It has become a device that replaced other past devices such as phones, faxes, letters, etc. Thanks to internet, information is easily accessed. The information can be individual information, economical, or a political one. Recently, there are some researchers that started to give more critical predictions concerning this technology. For that, this paper will discuss the two faces of internet by answering this question: How much control do the Internet owners have on what people see and read on the web? Many individuals consider Internet as either a utopian tool or as a dystopian one. The utopian people think that Internet is a device that will free humanity from oppression and …show more content…
Basically, that means that people have a negative idea about Internet and its uses. There is a theorists that criticized the cyber-utopianism by considering this tool as a naïve one because there is another side of the tool and utopian people ignore their disadvantages. This theorist is Morozov. He was considering that the ones to blame were the hippies and that they were the ones that caused these beliefs. Concerning the dystopian view of Internet, this concept was introduced and explained in more details by David Nye in 2007. He claimed that Web and technologies have some negative things with its uses. He describes the cyber-utopia as a concept that make people lose their privacy, losing control, and dependency. On the contrary of what has been said in the utopian part, Nye claims that we live in a society where elites take control over the others and oppress by using technology. According to him, technology is a kind of false hope. He also explained that people feared the introduction of web that can be compared to one people felt with introduction of radio, mobile phones and television. As social networking, those examples are substitutes in order to avoid face to face relationship. In addition to that, there some dystopian theorists named Nicholas Carr and Andrew Keen that claimed that social networking sites led to culture voyeurism and narcissism. In addition to that, this concept leads to surveillance. For example, in AUI, computers are all connected to a server and an Internet network. So, if you are smart enough to know how to do it, almost everyone can access to your information on your laptop: pictures, passwords, documents, etc. The ITS also have the ability to not only access your information, but also control what you see and what can you access or not such as their famous sentence that appears on your screen every time you are opening too much tabs: "You have reached the maximum