How Much For that World in the Window?

The internet. The downfall of human civilization. The end of the world. Well, as we know it, anyway.

Of the last dozen, hundred, thousand, billion, however-many years, the internet is the second-greatest threat to human civilization. The greatest, of course, being the tuna. But there's nothing we can do about the tuna and their eventual goal of conquering the world. There is something we can do about the internet.

But why, one might ask, is the internet such a huge threat to the world? is it teh complete lack of spleling + proper punct that abounds   or maybe the abbrev that l8r came from the missing typing skillz

Maybe it's the ability to say anything and everything, without having to back up your facts, without being able to be held accountable for any statements you make. Or perhaps it's the decrease in average sunshine taken by the normal person, as they spend increased hours indoors, sitting in front of their computers. It could be any of these. Each of these by itself could quickly bring about the downfall of human civilization, but these aren't the reason the internet is so fearsome. Not even the vast army of emoticons amassing throughout the world preparing to conquer are as huge a threat as The Internet itself.

For, you see, The Internet is (obviously) a devious entity, capable of hiding, capable of guiding the world's leaders in ways they might not normally consider going.

Or did you actually think that /people/ wrote all that junk you can find on the web?

I doubt that anyone would actually be willing to take credit for three quarters of the junk that you can find on the 'net these days. Three quarters of this stuff is useless and in no way is even verifiable. Three quarters of this stuff mis-leads students as they go to the web to try to find research for their papers which are due in twenty minutes and they haven't even started to read the book. Three quarters of this stuff is capable of giving mis-information to a scientist as she thinks she's corresponding with a friend across the world, a friend who has no way of telling her that that critically important figure is wrong, and as stated will actually cause a chain reaction leading to a complete breakdown in the earth's electromagnetic field, so she might want to refrain from doing her experiment until she gets verification. Verification which, of course, comes from The Internet through email, not through mail of a dead tree.

No, The Internet, this superior being, is capable of controlling our lives. It is powerful, it is frightening. And it supplies me with fun video games to play with other "real" people. So The Internet can take over the world, I don't care. I'm almost to level 4!