Well this will more than likely be the longest blog post I will ever make since my opinion on this is quite umm... Well I don't want to say complicated but it seems thats the only word I can think of at this moment to describe it.
Since the first computer in 1938, to the development of the first working network in 1969, America has striven towards the digitalization of everything man made. It seems that now, it is hard to find a hard copy or hand written copy of something unless your in a school or looking through your old middle school journal. It is estimated that 251,290,489 people in the united states alone use the internet each day, and in a global average, about 19.1% use the internet daily. Now granted, I am no professional mathematician or some sort of crazy smart person but since the worlds technology is getting more advanced, and more common I'm guessing that sometime with in the next 100 years (if we still use our normal computers) that atleast 40% or more of the world will be using the internet for things as simple as checking the news.
In the future there will be no need for news papers or possibly even news channels, weather channels, etc... Every single book now ( as it has been for some time but I still found this prominant) is no longer hand written, not the draft, not the revised copy, or the copy of the copy of the revised copy. Every single stage of a book, newspaper, script, etc... are all typed, then emailed, then faxed, then printed, then mailed again, etc... All around the world possibly within a matter of hours.
Any ways I really think that an all digital America sounds great! But, there is a problem. If there were some odd "cosmic phenomenon" and it were to screw up our computers and our back up files on those computers or even the back ups of the back ups on and off the computers... Then we would be in trouble because of our lack of non-digital information. I think that computers are fantastic and I think that being digital would be good because with out it I wouldn't be able to share my opinion on this. In Dublin, OH, there is a hospital that is brand new that construction was finished in 2008, that is 100% digital. This hospital doesn't have any patient records on paper (This is a good thing because it is pretty green) no original copies of the records on paper (or at least to my knowledge) and no paper copies even in case of emergencies. Now granted they more than likely have an emergency plan on what to do in case they got screwed up but in worst case scenario, if we had that whole Y2K kind of deal, than they as well would have awful problems. Well this is all i'm going to post for now so just keep updated for more added content and opinion.
Since the first computer in 1938, to the development of the first working network in 1969, America has striven towards the digitalization of everything man made. It seems that now, it is hard to find a hard copy or hand written copy of something unless your in a school or looking through your old middle school journal. It is estimated that 251,290,489 people in the united states alone use the internet each day, and in a global average, about 19.1% use the internet daily. Now granted, I am no professional mathematician or some sort of crazy smart person but since the worlds technology is getting more advanced, and more common I'm guessing that sometime with in the next 100 years (if we still use our normal computers) that atleast 40% or more of the world will be using the internet for things as simple as checking the news.
In the future there will be no need for news papers or possibly even news channels, weather channels, etc... Every single book now ( as it has been for some time but I still found this prominant) is no longer hand written, not the draft, not the revised copy, or the copy of the copy of the revised copy. Every single stage of a book, newspaper, script, etc... are all typed, then emailed, then faxed, then printed, then mailed again, etc... All around the world possibly within a matter of hours.
Any ways I really think that an all digital America sounds great! But, there is a problem. If there were some odd "cosmic phenomenon" and it were to screw up our computers and our back up files on those computers or even the back ups of the back ups on and off the computers... Then we would be in trouble because of our lack of non-digital information. I think that computers are fantastic and I think that being digital would be good because with out it I wouldn't be able to share my opinion on this. In Dublin, OH, there is a hospital that is brand new that construction was finished in 2008, that is 100% digital. This hospital doesn't have any patient records on paper (This is a good thing because it is pretty green) no original copies of the records on paper (or at least to my knowledge) and no paper copies even in case of emergencies. Now granted they more than likely have an emergency plan on what to do in case they got screwed up but in worst case scenario, if we had that whole Y2K kind of deal, than they as well would have awful problems. Well this is all i'm going to post for now so just keep updated for more added content and opinion.
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