The Internet and EVERYTHING!

In today's world technology is continually changing. The ways we do stuff, our ability to connect with the world, everything is changing and becoming increasingly fast and efficient.

To get and education, run a business, communicate or to shop it can all be done online. In fact it is virtually impossible to run a business or get an education without the use of a computer or internet. Many courses are offered online and most business use automatic online ordering. E-mail are also used by most business and students as there main source of communication. This blog even requires the use of the internet.

Unfortunately not everybody has the access to all of this in seconds. There are still many parts of the island that are limited to good ol' dial-up internet. Unfortunately these limitations are restricting where a business can be located and does infect the marks of students.

One of the options we have with this blog is to upload videos. I have not uploaded any and do not plan to as dial-up internet that I have to use couldn't upload that if you wanted it to. It literally takes minutes for pictures to be uploaded, can you even imagine the time it would take for a 3-4 MB video to upload.

I do know that the college offers high speed internet but the college is not open 24/7!

Dial-up internet restriction to continual communication and file transfers on a daily basis. I can't help but feel that my education is to a certain degree being limited at home due to the internet limitations.

Coming home on Friday, listening to Back Talk, I overheard a candidate for the upcoming federal election talking about the limitations that his district has in developing due to the lack of high speed internet in his district. I could not help but relate to the issues he was bringing up.

I hope that in the very near future something can be done about this issue. 

P.S. Just as I was about to post this blog, "Beep", and the window comes onto the screen saying "Internet Connection Has Been Lost."