THE INFORMATION AGE
Within the past ten years, the Internet and web have made a tremendous impact on our culture.
It will be difficult to summarize the impact on my simple "I Love the Library" blog.


Today, the Internet is a part of our every day life.
The Internet is a primary source of communication and information retrieval.
Now, majority of the population has a "smart phone" that can access the internet at any time.
Media and news is easily accessed, and people essentially are more "in the know" than they were just ten years ago.

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the impact of the Internet is the Music Industry. With everything going digital, there are hardly any profits being made from CD production. Musicians and artists are losing a lot of income due to illegal downloads or music applications such as iTunes. The following is a quote from an article found on Bloomberg Businessweek

"The new world of music looks very different from the old. With the new Web, services' listeners don't put CDs into a stereo or download tunes to their iPod. Instead, their music sits on a server somewhere else, waiting to be played from a computer or any other Net-connected device."

It will be interesting to see how the Internet continues to expand and the affect it will continue to have on our culture.