In today’s technology driven world, it’s almost impossible to imagine the world without the Internet and its numerous benefits. It has become the platform for almost every field imaginable like business education, entertainment, communication, etc. The internet is everything Past, Present and Future.1 It has empowered us to exchange data, opinions and news across the continents. As per internetlivestats, there are approximately 3,207,910,219 internet users across the globe which is almost 45% of entire world’s population. The internet has increased the reach of an individual by breaking all kinds of social, political, cultural, economical barriers and therefore, opening doors to wide stores of knowledge.2 Gradually Internet has taken the form a giant Organic System. Due to its colossal nature, it has multiple points of failure such as cascading failures, protocol errors, implementation errors, malicious attacks, etc.3 Internet has given new horizons to institutional practices, social interactions, educational practices, business practices etc. Due to the flexibility, efficiency and speed internet offers, it has opened new markets in the developing world.
During late 90’s with the expansion of the internet, dot com bubble started to grow. Along with this, there was considerable increase in the online retailing. Internet is used by online retail companies to perform some basic commercial actions such as advertising themselves, gathering customer’s taste, providing
The internet itself now plays an important role in our everyday lives, and has revolutionised both society and education. Following the invention of electronic computers in the 1950’s, the main format of the internet (that we still use today) was invented in 1978, before going global in the 1980’s. Primarily, the invention of the internet is important, due to how it revolutionised technology, and in such a short amount of time. Thanks to the internet mobile phones, laptops, and developed social media have all been invented, following the global demand during the 1980’s. As well as this, the invention of the internet has benefitted society due to the new technology that has sped up general tasks around the home, the spread of news and political topics, and the time used for revision, particularly with students. Just like the Civil Rights movement, without the internet, our modern society would be very
Internet became a huge source of opportunities in 21st century. We meet people, make money, study, shop, entertain ourselves, and do so many other things through online. Computers, phones, and other gadgets almost replaced our daily items and saved us a lot of time. However there is an evil side of this trend. We became more open online, than we are in real live.
Throughout the years the impact of the internet on society has evolved in many different ways. Since the creation of the internet its purpose in society has also evolved in various ways. At its simplest the internet is a tool that can be used for communication. As many of us know the internet is a flexible tool unlike any others that one can shape to fulfill their vision. In recent years the internet has emerged as a major source for information entertainment, and news, and other various means of communication. The internet has revolutionized the way in which the media operates. The media uses the internet as a tool to get information to the masses. Before the internet
Business like Amazon wants to make buying item from their business easier for customers. This is why Amazon offers E-retailing which gives customer option to go shopping online. The internet has had impact change on consumers shopping habit as shopping online has numerous advantages which is why online shopping continues to gain popularity. Some of the advantages of E-retailing is that it’s convenient as consumers are able to go shopping at home which could help them save cost on travelling and also gives consumers an option to compare prices of different products as there are wide range of products being sold online.
Education is one of the sectors that benefits from the advancement of Information Technology. Unwin states,“Whether you live in Silicon Valley, Manchester or sub-Saharan Africa, education and the Internet are the great equalizers in life”(Unwin, 2004, p. 3). According to Unwin , the Internet is an important technological innovation that helps every one whether in developed countries or in developing countries to get basic education
2. Theoretical backgrounds 2.1 Internet shopping mall Internet shopping allows the purchaser to search and survey the information on service or product by accessing internet shopping site through internet in remote place instead of retail shop as a physical space, and then enables to select or order the goods, and ultimately pay the money using credit card to purchase the goods/services (Ruth, 2000). It is defined as the collective concept of on-line shops having the products in a variety of lines where advertisement and exhibition of the products for internet shopping is carried out through electronic shopping mall, server is equipped with data like prices, structures, characteristics of various products, webpage provides information on the product together with multi-media information (Hoffman and Novak, 1996). Internet shopping mall is characterized by connecting producer directly with final end-user while traditional off-line market comprises four steps from producer through final consumer. In addition, it is rarely restricted by time/space, and easy to acquire information from customer. Traditional commercial transaction requires a large amount of investment to maintain fixed assets and human resource, while e-commerce requires investment mainly for system installation only. Besides, in terms of
The e-commerce industry was growing rapidly due to the increasing awareness among net savvy people. Many retail chains were opening up their online portals to capture more consumers and scale up their ventures. The
The commercial world has become digital in a rapid manner. All the industries are now quickly adapting to the internet age, and are offering their products to the consumers in the convenient shopping experience from home using a web-browser or a smartphone app. With the trend of online shopping becoming larger with each passing year, there now exist some mega-empires of retail as well as wholesale organizations that functions
In the developing world with the raising rate of the internet user, the internet has been becoming an inseparable part of people’s lives. As the internet is concerned with its side effects in the lives, it deprives them of their possessions like good relationship with others, creativity skill and the time that they have, and makes them have psychological illness like social-phobia and depression. In fact, it endangers their privacy. Therefore, people should be aware of the threads of the internet. Even though the internet seem to be beneficial, it can be the source of crucial issues in people’s lives.
Internet provision and internet business is the basis for future national economic development. Thus we also have to appreciate that "these are not simply paradigms about technological change, but have the impact in the constructions of its values and its self-conception." (Miller; Slater, 2000) The changes in the information technology caused by the growth of the internet technology has brought together the multiple forms for communication - oral, writing, print, television, e-mail all in one browser with a multi-directional flow of information that has made the internet very complex. (Burnett; Marshall, 2002)
The Internet is the most popular network around the world. It started in 1969 and is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Also, it offers a variety of information and services. Around 40% of the world population has an internet connection today. Therefore, People is not only use internet for searching information or ideas, it also provide as a fast and effective means of communication. People can share information fast and clear among each other. Internet offered the world with a lot of important information and entertainment hence making easier and cheap for individuals. Internet helps
In today’s world Internet has become one of the most important mediums of communication. It has become the lifeline of our survival. It has removed the entire social, economic and physical barrier and has immense effect on our day to day activity.
Today, society is affected by the many advances in technology. These advances affect almost every person in the world. One of the prevalent advances in technology was the invention and mass use of the Internet. Today more than ever, people around the world use the Internet to support their personal and business tasks on a daily basis. The Internet is a portal into vast amounts of information concerning almost every aspect of life including education, business, politics, entertainment, social networking, and world security. (idebate.com) Although the Internet has become a key resource in developing the world, the mass use of Internet has highlighted a major problem, privacy and the protection of individual, corporate, and even government
It is only in the past year or two that we have begun to see the
In todays scenario, online Shopping play a great importance in the modern business environment. Online shopping has opened the door of opportunity and advantage to the firms. Rowley Jennifer, (1998) examined that internet is becoming a hotbed of advertising, shopping and commercial activity. Hsieh et al., (2013) stated that internet is influencing