Both sources are beneficial to all of us as information sources. I believe that the internet has the bigger impact on our lives.
First, the internet is literally World Wide Web to exchange information. Information on the net is distributed from the four corners of the earth. For example, I can have a net meeting with multiple locations. One engineer in the U.K, other engineer in the U.S and myself in Japan. We can get this benefit through the internet. On the contrary, TV is relatively local operation restricted physical limitation such as signal transmission on air. Specific devices for satellite TV and cable TV are more or less needed. I’m afraid the flow of information is intermittent over continuance.
Secondly, we can access enormous knowledge in the world through such as Wikipedia, Yahoo search engine. You can choose them on your own decision. You can do it at the moment you want to know. However, TV unilaterally sends information to the audience. You are just given the information TV program feeds. Some of information is not necessary for you. You might not be allowed to access the information you want.
Thirdly, we can experience active mode to send information and passive mode to receive information on the net. We can easily send information to all over the world. However, TV doesn’t have any active aspects distributing information from individual. Bilateral information route is the biggest benefit of the internet.
In conclusion, I believe that the internet has at least great advantages against TV.
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Is the Internet dangerous?
The Internet is basically a great tool, although currently I have never regarded it greater than the invention of printing press, because once I saw a scene in which my very smart computer teacher who has a PhD in physics and manipultes computers so skillfully tell me that whenever I use a computer, even though PC nowadays is great, I need to prepare a piece of paper beside me so that I might not miss any information. PCs sometimes break, but paper not. PC is not necessarily almighty.
Since the dawn of the Interner age, we have received tremendous benefits from it. For examples, we do not have to go to libraries any more to get information, the Internet brings us to distant places without charging us air ticket fees by showing us up-to-date pictures of the destinations, we can use email to contact person instantly without postage charges, we can get various entertainment at home, we can purchase various goods without leaving home, and some people even get education online.
But like almost all other things, the Internet has also disadvantages. On the Net are all kinds of people. Therefore, the Net has a lot of unhealthy, dangerous stuffs on it, like swindle, bogus, hypo and fraud. It also has problematic dating sites and suicide circle, etc. Somebody may be trying to propabate dangerous thoughts.
Even for the healthy adults, computers sometines make them annoyed. Their company probably ask them to become familiar with some computer programs like word, excell, powerpoint, and access. In some cases their bosses may demand them further to master some kind of computer softwares specialized for that industriy.
So, much more for some people especially who are very young and very old and intellectually disadvantaged. They tend to become easy preys for various cheating. Old people easily fall prey for the phishing scam, children are caught in the mesh of pedophiles, housewives who have no working experiences fall for e-comerse fraud, mentally retarted people are taken in by a swindle to send their personal information including their banking accounts and passwords to get prizes they supposedly won according to the person on the other side of the online. Those socially disadvantaged people are doomed to be cheated. Even if we try hard to protect them by giving them adequate education, bad guys on the Net always outsmart us. It is like a game of cat and mouse. So, in conclusion, the Interner has brought more benefits to smarter people, and more harm to intellectually weak people, all in all we can say that, the Internet is a kind of a double edged sword.
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