Title: The Internet Advantage - HopeChannel
Headings: The Internet Advantage
The Internet Advantage
1. It provides instant communication—to almost anywhere.
2. It gives greater access to more knowledge.
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3. It affords wider commercial opportunity.
4. It opens the door to other cultures.

Content: The Internet Advantage - HopeChannel
The Internet Advantage
by Mark Kellner
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There was a moment in the X Files that bolted me upright, the hairs on the back of my neck standing at attention. Perennial movie villain Armin Mueller-Stahl addresses his secret organisation colleagues about a genetically engineered food experiment gone wrong and intones, “ We are but beggars to our own demise .” At the time, the summer of 1998, I felt that way about the Internet, which, in part, had helped “ kill ” the magazine I edited. If someone else could “ publish ” online in seconds a product review that I could not deliver in print in less than 90 days, there was one reason why we didn’t have enough advertisers or subscribers. I’d promoted this “ Internet thing ” in my magazine, and now that magazine was gone, along with my rather nice job, a victim of my own doing. With the passage of time and a bit of reflection, I’ve come to see —the magazine debacle notwithstanding—that the Internet is as much of a blessing as a bane to society. In fact, for millions of people around the world, the Internet is a vital part of their daily existence, delivering as much good and more, than it does bad. It has its downside, of which we hear much—pornography and online gambling, for example, but you can read about that somewhere else this time. Of its benefits, four categories of benefit stand out. There are more.