Everything on this Earth was made by us. (Us being human beings, of course.) Your dog? Bred to look and act that way by us. The apples at the supermarket? Genetically engineered, planted, and tended by us. The internet that you're surfing right now? You got it, us again. The internet, which was developed by some genius at some point in the last century, is a wonderful resource, tool, and means of communication. But more than that, our lives have become dependent on it. Chatting with friends, ordering a cool book, looking up a recipe for dinner, checking the news, even submitting homework assignments online have become the norm for us.
Perhaps some people are a little bit uneasy about this overwhelming reliance on the web. I admit it makes me a bit nervous to think about how much of our lives are devoted to this one piece of technology. But I figure, it's a valuable resource made by us, for us. It has been our collective choice, over time, to grow more and more attached to the web. So why not make the best of the great big World Wide Web? That's what Web 2.0 is to me. Its mission is to make the internet as accessible, creative, user-friendly, and contemporary as possible to facilitate all present and future web users. Through new, communication-centered sites, the web is becoming an even more valuable and effective resource that we can all use to its full advantage, here and now. Because after all, what would we do without the internet?
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