IS INTERNET THE ANSWER TO ALL QUESTIONS?

" FOR a 22 year old guy(like me), internet is something, which is just entertainment. It is just another alternative for TV or music. A guy or a girl of my age chats , surfs internet as if its just another phone call or channel surfing on the television. It is really have become a part and parcel of life and to an greater extend it has replaced the conventional TV and music as entertainment. It is just a new way of socializing with people, no matter the distance, caste,creed,race, color,gender or nationality."

20 years ago nobody would have believed that Internet would be a great tool for socialzing people. It was really something which a was like a secret society type. It was constricted to people who knew computers. Internet was really a nerdy users thing. It was never meant to common people.

Even today, i believe that the internet is not meant or understandable for a common people. What if a farmer wants to know about a some new techniques of farming. He has start from learning the computer and slowly move on to learning the internet. He will reach a stage in which he will be able to understand What is internet is and how does it works. This will take too much time. What is the use of such technology which makes the work harder. Technology is supposed to make things easy, not hard.

Another problem with the internet today is, it is large powerhouse of data. It is certainly not information powerhouse. Data house and information house are two different and somewhat opposite terminologies.Information is processed data. For example, if i am a guy searching for some road maps in Maharashtra. The information will not be available and if does it wont be so much useful.There is a mismatch of information needed and information shown over the Internet. Internet is just a powerhouse which is not meant for common people and with common problems or queries, which they expect the internet would solve.

So i guess, there is a need for an internet model which is different from today`s model. I predict that a day may come a farmer will search the internet for farming. A noted computer scientist Vijay Bhatkar once said, "The real use of technology is when the poorest of poor will be benefited from it."