For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.
I agree with this fact that the net is becoming if not already the biggest universal medium that allows us to take in knowledge with ease from all over the world.
Vaill emphasizes that “learning must be a way of being – an ongoing set of attitudes and actions by individuals and groups that they employ to try to keep abreast o the surprising, novel, messy, obtrusive, recurring events…” (1996, p.42).
This quote interest me because it reminds me of the phrase "you learn something new everyday" which we actually happens and when we keep an open mind to the world with the right attitude I believe we could absorb even more information.
It thus engages, stimulates, and empowers data exchange that’s one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many, and many-to-one. As Naughton points out in another essential essay, this structure permits unique and disruptive emergent phenomena, some of which will be disturbing and harmful, some of which will simply be puzzling or appear irrelevant (or be denounced as such), and some of which will be enormously beneficial.
Interesting effects and uses that the internet can have from positive side of the spectrum to negative.