“It is time to stop taking sides with regard to the promise and perils of Internet technology and begin working together to imagine what the Internet could be and to work for those possible outcomes.”
Is it time to work for a better internet? Douglas Schuler thinks so. In Douglas Schuler’s article, “It’s Time to Work for a Better Internet”, he discusses the benefits of improving the Internet and how it is time to start changing it. He points out how this battle is pretty much a battle between pessimists and optimists. The pessimist naturally assumes for things to go badly, while the optimist expects everything to turn around. Regardless of the optimist or pessimist point of view of the situation, Schuler thinks the future holds so much for the improvement of the Internet. The Internet has a lot of potential to be greater than it already is, so who would be against improvements? In my opinion, Douglas Schuler is definitely an optimist because he sees what the future can hold and he has a word for it too, meliorism. Meliorism is “the belief that the world can beamed better by human effort”. I like this word a lot because I agree with it. If every human actually lived up to their potential, this world would be great. Schuler explains that if the Internet could be amazing and improved if only people actually work for those possible outcomes. “We have the imagination and the resources to build the Internet”, so why don’t we start? Someone needs to get the ball rolling and stop talking about it and actually make it happen!
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