Essay - Internet Nationalism and Isolationism Use of the Internet in Other...

Internet

Nationalism And Isolationism

Use of the Internet In Other Countries

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This paper will focus on the combination ***** nationalism and isolationism within ***** realm of the Internet. Modern day social ***** cultural observers are receiving mixed messages in regard to our twenty first century highly technologically advanced global bus*****ess and economic spectrum. It can be argued that ***** world's nation states have become less important ***** that we as a planetary culture have begun to move towards a glob*****l village. Consider that through technology advances such as computerization and the internet, man can now easily ***** billions of dollars in milliseconds to any locale ***** the world. The internet has also created many new opportunities for trade and investment on a completely global scale. For example, *****re ***** lobster salesmen in Bost***** who can sell their morning's catch to the Chefs in New York, Bangkok or Istanbul by ***** simply logg*****g on and providing ***** right in*****mation. ***** internet promotes a one world market and when ***** hear the word globalization, we instantly think ***** a border***** world. But the mixed message is that the internet also provides a proof that leans in the o*****r direction - complete technological isolationism. Nationalism has also ***** to flourish as the first ***** nations and ***** rest of the industrialized world begins to separate itself from ***** less capable or developed nations. One area where these aspects of new nationalism ***** be found is also on the internet.

Internet

Prior to ***** current arrays of complex information ***** solutions, computers *****re only single or 'dumb' terminals that only accepted data from mainframe overseers. "It's depressing how *****ten we see that those who don't remember his*****ry are doomed to repeat it. When cordless ph*****s and the first analog cell phones hit ***** market, anybody with a sc*****nner that operated at the ***** frequency could easily listen to calls not intended for them." (Gast, 2002) The systems of th***** day were easy to manage and only a few individuals had access ***** mainframes. Today, a b*****sic network ***** many individual nodes more powerful *****an those original mainframes of just a few years ago ***** they ***** offer access to the Internet and in turn the *****.

The *****ternet is nothing more than a series of integrated machines and software that entails seamless communication. "Today's ***** incorporates all sorts of wonderful but unsettling services. Voice data travels over the enterprise network. Files are shared. Corporate networks now include travelers and customers, *****ten in the name of e-business and e-commerce." (Avolio, 2000) These machines liter*****y speak to one ano*****r. "The ***** began in 1969 as the ARPANET, a project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. ***** of ***** original goals of the ***** w***** to create a network th*****t would continue ***** function even if major sections of the network failed or were attacked. The ARPANET was designed to reroute network traffic automatically around problems in connect*****g