Internet: Blessing Or Cursing?
Bill Gates had concerns about both information overload and information underload and tried to solve the situation via Windows Live Search. Though, Bill was promoting the product from this company, he DID catch the key issues related to the current Internet. According to a Google phone screen question, the whole Internet world has more than 2 trillion homepages. It is so easy for people to lose in the Internet Maze, not to mention the enormouse interruptions introduced by emails, and IMs.
Due to the recent cold weather, I lost the Internet connection from Comcast, which gave me a good opportunity to enjoy life without the Internet. Amazingly, I had much more time to read books, to exercise and to think about the true meaning of my ow life. Then, I realized that how much time I have wasted everyday through the Internet.
The real problem is that we are lack of tools to help us rate homepages, filter out junk information and find what we want. One good comparison is between Internet news (Google news and Yahoo news) and normal newspapers. Newspapers have opinions while Internet news are still lack of. Yes, you can do a search based on key words but you cannot get what you want. In the real world, you have the basic ideas of what you get when you open Washington Post or New York Times. Then, we end up doing a lot of editing job by ourselves. 
Let’s see how far Web 2.0 will go!
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