An average person consume 34GB on a average day to overall consumption total of 3.6 zettabytes, but according to the guardian newspaper is 500 billion gigabytes.
What proportion of the world’s population can now go online?
The total usage of the internet since 31st December 2011 is throughout the whole world is 2,267,233.742 billion which means a 32.7% of the population penerate the internet with a 528.1% growth since 2000.
| WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS December 31, 2011 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Regions |
Population
( 2011 Est.) |
Internet Users
Dec. 31, 2000 |
Internet Users
Latest Data |
Penetration
(% Population) |
Growth
2000-2011 |
Users %
of Table |
| Africa | 1,037,524,058 | 4,514,400 | 139,875,242 | 13.5 % | 2,988.4 % | 6.2 % |
| Asia | 3,879,740,877 | 114,304,000 | 1,016,799,076 | 26.2 % | 789.6 % | 44.8 % |
| Europe | 816,426,346 | 105,096,093 | 500,723,686 | 61.3 % | 376.4 % | 22.1 % |
| Middle East | 216,258,843 | 3,284,800 | 77,020,995 | 35.6 % | 2,244.8 % | 3.4 % |
| North America | 347,394,870 | 108,096,800 | 273,067,546 | 78.6 % | 152.6 % | 12.0 % |
| Latin America / Carib. | 597,283,165 | 18,068,919 | 235,819,740 | 39.5 % | 1,205.1 % | 10.4 % |
| Oceania / Australia | 35,426,995 | 7,620,480 | 23,927,457 | 67.5 % | 214.0 % | 1.1 % |
| WORLD TOTAL | 6,930,055,154 | 360,985,492 | 2,267,233,742 | 32.7 % | 528.1 % | 100.0 % |
This shows how many people in the world go online on the internet, Africa is ranked to have the highest users to go online. Asia is second probably because of all the technology which they produce daily, which mean internet must be something important in their lives. In the UK it's around 72% usage which is one of the highest leading internet users.
The number of people who could access the internet in 1995?
In 1995, it's around 0.04% of the world could only go online, which has now risen to 32%. this means only a third of the worlds population can now use the 'cloud'.
The number of people who can access the internet in today?
Now in the 21st century around 2 billion users, which means the internet has become widely important to everyone in the world mostly in the western civilisation.
Nature of information
The Web has succeeded so spectacularly as a new publishing and communication medium for many reasons—the ease with which anyone can publish, the ability to change and update content, the interconnectedness from linking, the lack of a limit to the quantity of information published, and more. While many Web sites, including some of the most popular ones, continue to use the print model of publishing information in somewhat static articles, others are experimenting with improving overall information quality by having broader participation in the writing, correcting, and updating of content.
With the linking patterns on the Web, sites can create virtual communities of interlinked sites that provide different views, related information, and varying interpretations while still linking to each other. Following the links between the sites can create a more complete information portrait of an issue. [http://www.infotoday.com/online/sep04/OnTheNet.shtml]
Communication
Before the internet, the only way to communicate with someone is face to face or over the phone. If you had to write to someone, you had to send a mail over to their place. We were content with that. However, we look back at it now, we are pretty limited. Now, the internet has somewhat merged the three forms of communication together. Instead of mailing a letter, a lot of people email each other. It is a lot quicker than the other way. A lot of people now communicate through texts. Now, thanks to Skype, you can have video chats over the internet with. Social Networking has contributed a lot to this change. A lot of friends are keeping up with each other on platforms like Face book. The internet has also gone mobile. You now have phones that are computers which can surf the web and communicate through various methods.
The internet has revolutionized a lot in the world. Communication is one medium that has definitely been influenced by the invention of the internet. A lot of people can stay in touch with each other even if they move miles apart from each other thanks to the World Wide Web.
[http://www.intersectweb.org/2011/07/14/how-the-internet-has-changed-communication/]
Over the past couple of decades, the internet has quickly changed the way the world has communicated. From discussion boards found all over the internet to the new wave of VoIP (voice over internet protocol); we have seen a substantial change in the modern way people interact. Communicating over the internet has made it possible to affordably communicate worldwide with the same quality you would expect from your standard phone lines. The internet holds the most of its information in searchable discussion logs and public viewable pages which not only allow you to review previously discussed topics, but the ability to find this information quickly and easily. It also contains more information than any library in the world.
Without face to face interaction, people are more willing to openly discuss more personal topics such as health, love, and life in general. Users are also able to fully think out their discussion board post, email, or message before it is sent which can allow a more meaningful conversation. The connection between different regions and cultures also provides a very unique experience.
[http://ezinearticles.com/?How-The-Internet-Is-Changing-Communication&id=662004]
privacy
In an interview with TechCrunch last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said sharing private information online with the faceless masses had become a "social norm." Interpretation: Privacy is a has-been luxury, a relic of a bygone, unwired era.Today, oversharing has become typical of online social networking, with people publicizing real-time information of where they are (Foursquare, Gowalla) and what they're doing (Twitter, Facebook).Whether we're constantly updating our Facebooks and flickrs or not, we still leave behind a virtual breadcrumb trail anytime we hop online, thanks to data tracking software, cookies and web bugs that log what we search for, where we land and what we do once we get there. http://news.discovery.com/tech/is-the-internet-destroying-privacy.html
We are in the midst of the Information Era! There has been an enormous information explosion, and the mushrooming popularity of the Internet and its World Wide Web puts huge amounts of information right at your fingertips. How much of that information is about you? Are you concerned about it?
Some of the threats to privacy have been widely publicized. The Federal Government wants the FBI to be able to access any one's PC. Amazon has been sharing customer information with others in their "purchase circles". And worst of all, a major security hole was revealed in Microsoft's Hotmail service that allowed anyone to view any hotmail member's mailbox by using a correctly configured URL that included the username, but not the password.
If you are running a business, you probably want information to be easily accessible about your products or services. You don't want potential customers to look elsewhere because they could not locate information about your business. Possibly you want your name to be readily recognizable, too. It may enhance your career standing. But what about your personal telephone number? Or your personal home address? Do you want your e-mail address to be accessible to all? Do you want just anyone to know about your personal interests? What information would you expect to remain private and unavailable to anyone with an Internet account? Are your expectations realistic, and what can you do about it? This page will give you some answers. http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/privacy.html
Online safety
The Internet can be a wonderful resource for kids. They can use it to research school reports, communicate with teachers and other kids, and play interactive games. Kids who are old enough to punch in a few letters on the keyboard can literally access the world.
But that access can also pose hazards. For example, an 8-year-old might do an online search for "Lego." But with just one missed keystroke, the word "Legs" is entered instead, and the child may be directed to a slew of websites with a focus on legs — some of which may contain pornographic material.
That's why it's important to be aware of what your kids see and hear on the Internet, who they meet, and what they share about themselves online.
Just like any safety issue, it's wise to talk with your kids about your concerns, take advantage of resources to protect them, and keep a close eye on their activities.
Business
Why business through the Internet? The answer to this question is very simple. It is estimated that 10 million people in Poland use the Internet. Therefore, it is an enormous market of potential clients with almost infinite absorptive power.
With a well-positioned website or shop, our web page on the Internet can be visited for instance by 300 000 people a month. Such a situation in a traditional shop is almost impossible. Assuming pessimistically that one (person) in 300 makes a purchase at our Internet shop, it gives us a thousand clients a month. It is enough to earn on each of those 1000 people 10 zlotys and our monthly revenue amounts to 10 000 zlotys. It is the opportunity of reaching a broad range of clients that makes business through the Internet so profitable. We also need to remember that our shop can sell goods to people from around the world, which gives us a market of a billion potential customers.
The most important advantages of running a business in the Internet are:
1. no premise-related costs
2. an enormous market of potential clients
3. the opportunity of selling goods to foreign customers
4. flexible working hours when running an Internet shop
5. limiting the number of employees, which means lower costs of the company's activity
6. low open costs
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1000629
Copyright
Copying songs, films or images from the internet without permission is illegal under Britain's copyright laws, which would be draconian were it not for the fact that they are so frequently flouted and with so little comeback. The principle, though, is straightforward: unless a copyright owner has given permission for content to be shared – whether via YouTube or the photo-sharing site Flickr – copying, even for private use, is illegal.
Which is why, more than 10 years after the iPod was launched, it is still in law not permissible to rip songs from a CD on to a computer or digital music player. The only legal exemption is the so-called "time shifting" exemption, which allows people to record television programmes for personal use.
So draconian is the existing law that a parody song, such as the viral online hit Newport State of Mind, can be taken down, because, in this case, the writers of the original Empire State of Mind don't approve.
Ministers intend to relax the rules once the Hargreaves review into intellectual property is implemented, which would give Britons the same freedoms from copyright actions as their American and German counterparts, but consultation into how to do so finished only last month.
However, few people worry about the reality of the law: although there is a growing recognition that copying media, and in particular music, can harm creators, the true barriers to piracy are technological. Most people are too confused by "torrent" illegal download sites, and so prefer legal alternatives. At the same time, despite various efforts to force internet providers to send warning letters, or agree to other stiffer measures, the truth is that it is not economic for media companies to pursue small copyright infringers. British copyright law and internet copyright reality remain some distance apart. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/18/british-copyright-law-internet
