Early Internet pioneer David Hughes agreed: “When every person on this planet can communicate twoway with every other person on this planet, the power of nationstates to control every human inside its geographic boundaries may start to disappear.”
Wearables (electronic equipment that people can wear) could monitor more than just steps, predicted UC Berkeley's Aron Roberts—or do more than just monitor: “We may literally be able to adjust both medications and lifestyle changes on a daybyday basis or even an hourbyhour basis.”
Microsoft Research's Jonathan Grudin is more pessimistic (悲观): “By making so much activity visible, it exposes the gap between the way people behave and the way we think they ought to behave. Adjusting to this will be an unending, difficult task.”
And the difference between the rich and the poor will have a new aspect:“Only the welloff (and welleducated) will know how to preserve their privacy,” warned one expert.
“Will the Internet make it possible for our entire civilization to fall down together, in one big awful step? Possibly.” admitted Harvard's Doctor Searls. “But the Internet has already made it possible for us to use one of our unique advantages—the ability to share knowledge—to a degree higher than ever before.”
9. As for the influences of our uses of the Internet on humanity, some of the experts are ________.
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