Welcome to a new corner of the internet. My name is Nish and
this blog is my project to understand our relationship to the internet. To explore how this global network that ties
together millions of computers and billions of people changes our lives.
Whether it’s Facebook nation, the Twitterverse, the
blogosphere, or something else, the internet is everywhere and we all have our niches
in it. But what I find most interesting is that when you break it down the
internet is nothing.
By that my I mean that the internet is just digital space
between computers. It isn’t real. It isn’t something you can touch or feel. Yet
with our computer screens we’re given a tiny portal into the internet. But this window of ours is so miniscule and at
any given point we are only looking at a fraction of a fraction of the internet.
Thus, we never realize the impact it has on us as individuals and as a society.
We are all just internetuals living in a world that thanks
to the Internet is smaller than ever. Nothing is distant from us. We can search
for pictures of the moon, or recipes for South Asian cuisine, or music from
that indie band out in California without ever having to leave our keyboards. At
the same time this new age has sparked riots and movements. It has raised
awareness for so many issues and given a voice to so many people. Anyone these
days can just hop on the internet and make a blog (like me) and start posting
about whatever they want. The point is that there is real power to internet
even though it may not be real itself.
This is where this blog comes in. This is my medium to come to
terms with how the internet influences reality and I hope some of you web
surfers out there will join me on this journey to explore and understand the
impact of the internet.
