It’s a Small World After All

“It’s a world of laughter, a world or tears, its a world of hopes, its a world of fear, theres so much that we share that its time we’re aware, its a small world after all.” Sherman Brothers, in the early 1960s, wrote this song for a Walt Disneyshow dedicated to the children of the world, with the hope to spread the message of peace and harmony. Aroundthe same time in several institutions across the globe,research had begun on Packet Switching.Thiswould later form the basis of what we know today as internetworking or the more evolved Internet. The ferocity with which the Internet over the past decades has made our world “small” would have been unimaginable even to the Sherman brothers. In the past ten years alone, with technologies such as search engines, chat rooms, instant messaging and social media we have managed to create a highly interconnected, interdependentand dynamic world. This has made our information universe expand, our national and cultural boundaries permeable and our outreach borderless. At the same time with every information about everyone and everything, whether individual or corporate or government being constantly recorded and never forgotten, we have managed to create a whole new way of life that did not even exist at the turn of the century.