The Internet has largely changed everything, from our lifestyle to our social interactions to even the way we think.
If you could tell a 20th-century layman that you can talk to people in any corner of the world instantly over a video call, they would hardly believe you.
Internet became popular in the 1980s, become accessible to the masses in the 1990s, and the early global tech innovations started in early 2000s led by Google, Facebook and other such global technology innovations. The originality of their ideology is what makes them special and massively adopted by millions of internet users. But even the most recent of these innovations are now more than a decade old, including the new entrants such as Uber, Airbnb and Bitcoin that came in the decade 2000 to 2010. And a common factor that we often notice amongst most of these global innovations is that they all came from the Western nations.
Doesn’t it make you wonder why? After all, it is no secret that every big company contains a large population of employees from the east.
Given that no globally disruptive technology innovation has happened in nearly a decade long period, it’s high time that such a disruptive innovation comes about now; something that has the ability to impact the world positively. It is also quite logical that this technology comes from the East now, combining the best of the geniuses in the East with the experiences the world has had from the West. Moreover, as there is yin, there is yang.
As much as the internet has benefited the world, it also has made some wrongs. Though it has become easy to access any information now, the privacy and security of millions of people on the internet are always at stake of being lost, stolen or misused in one way or another.