As discussed in previous class times, technology has been a good and bad thing for us. Connectivity and ease of access has increased with the world, but lack of memory storage and becoming dependent on it has hindered us. And so it has also become a problem for authentication of information upon the internet, not only including people and contacts but information that may be used for data. The ever expanding portions of the internet has dwindled the amount of real proof that we could use to prove the information is ultimately correct. Also with the case of seeing versus believing is not promising due to ability of fabricating information and images.
With the ever changing technology, there are always new tools to learn and different ways of doing things. There was an example given in the book of the Normans invading the English and their different culture of reading and writing had increased both of their cultural knowledge. With these cultures, to secure sending of letters and other information, seals and signatures were used so that the person receiving the letter knew they were not tampered with and who they were from. Signatures can be used to finalize something or making an important mark on a document, for example John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence and other politicians.
The next question of the expanding internet web is that everyone can become an author, but should everyone? You are basically “authoring” something when you post on a social media network, but it is less monumental than writing a book or a journal article that was scanned to be used for online access. I believe that some people who have a knack for writing online are able to continue what they are doing but some people post some unnecessary information that doesn’t need to be shared with the world.
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