Info Highway blessed by Internet
Aug 2nd, 2008 | By admin | Category: SocietyInformation and its flow could have never been easier than today’s Internet driven world. The word Instantaneous has found it’s resurgence, when information can fly to the opposite corner of the world within the twinkling of an eye.
The massacre of New York reaches the African country virtually at a zero time lag.
The immediate benefit of such a jet speed communication is the drastic improvement of knowledge base and awareness among the inquisitive people. As Internet cant distinguish Manmohan Singh from Bill Laden, even a prudent commoner can be immensely benefited like the top notch elite society. If the usage of ecommerce site by 9% people in the developing countries fails to send the right signal, then the usage of internet as a job searching site or web education can become the right parameter to measure its penetrating ability. Rights to Information has been acknowledged by many governmental bodies and decision making authorities today and this has been possible only due to the overwhelming spread and the wide reach of Internet.
Video tele conference is in use for quiet sometime now.
Perhaps the day is not far away when emancipation from the cherished tradition of casting vote by going physically to the polling booth will become possible and the citizen will be able to franchise their voting rights just by a click of the mouse from their cozy bedroom.
