We happen to live those moments in the history of mankind when the world has stopped being amazed by scientific inventions marking the 1800s. Digitisation is becoming more the heart and the essential mechanic of all technological innovations. The more innovative items humanity is gifted everyday the more readily it expects additional gadgets. Because we have bargaining power, we feel we deserve to be spoilt constantly by more technological inventions to suit our caprices and our change-adept requirements. Geared and dictated with such mentality and trends of production, our age is marked by the transition from the industrial era to the informational era. Today the flow of information defines economic productivity. Digitisation technology determines new trends and cultures so profusely that it is hard to ignore or deny its influences, impacts and effects on our thoughts, actions and habits. Furthermore, the world is shrinking into a global village due to determining factors like globalisation, worldwide rise in literacy and economic outbursts. All these factors influence people such that new cultures and ways of life are gradually taking over old systems. The epitome of this novelty rests on the basis that people are no more thrown away into oblivion due to distances that arise because of space and time. Advanced communication technologies seem to have twisted our original understanding of space and time, considering how distances matter very little in transactions and diverse tasks are done very speedily with connecting networks. People are able to connect with one another through a range of networks determined by latest technologies. Previously the connectedness among people, cultures, social groups, countries did exist but not as profound and as prolific as it is today. “While the networking form of social organisation has existed in other times and spaces, the new information technology paradigm provides the basis for its pervasive expansion throughout the entire social structure.” (Castells-vol. 1)
The effectiveness of networks has led to further improve network based technologies such as the Internet to promote and maximise on the networking culture of inter-connectedness. If the Internet opens up the world by enabling the flows of information so profusely it is worth assessing the risks of such freedom in dealings possible on the web notably ‘terrorism online’, an evil we have to live with in this informational age!