The internet has many uses. But not only it has become the most powerful tool capable of transforming the lives of billions of people as well as the global economy, the internet has also turned itself away from its original intention.
Social media networks are centralized for reasons. Mainly because they run on their respective platforms, operated by their respective companies.
This makes the companies that own them, have the utmost control of their social media networks properties.
But in a bad way, centralization on social media networks empowers those massive corporations and governments to steal users' privacy and restrict people's speech and autonomy.
From Facebook to Twitter, to WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and many others, the world has become an enlarged place where people can live in both the real world, and the world they created on social media.
As a result, there is no doubt that social media networks have occupied most people's time on the web.
People become obsessed, with many of them willing to do practically anything to be seen and be viral.
In the world where the internet is available in many places, people are using social media for various things. But the truth about social media is that, it can be an awful place to be.
First of all, with people having the ability to say whatever they like whenever they want, anything between good and bad can spread. Second, with the many users social media networks have, those places can be a breeding ground for hate speech, bullying and fake news.
Application programming interface or API, is a set of subroutine definitions, communication protocols, and tools for building software.
In many ways, technologies need APIs so they can clearly define the methods of communication among their various components. This is to give a technology the voice it needs, packaging it to become a product.
Face recognition technology has come a long way, before coming to the internet, our phones and to governmental security initiatives. The technology has a bright future, as it certainly helps improve existing societal benefits for the better.
But there are myriad issues around the usage of the technology.
When someone did something wrong to us, we may demand an apology. In most cases, that is sufficient, especially when the person in question knows where the mistake is, and promises to never repeat that same mistake in the future.
But when that someone did a crime, a mere apology may not be enough. The person may face the law, and get some jail time or fines. That is for the punishment, ensuring that the person will never commit the same mistake again.
This is for the deterrence for such crime.
Yes, technology can solve a lot of problems. But it is said to be "naive" to believe that it could "solve humanity's problems."
According to Sundar Pichai, Google faces more challenges if compared to when it was a young company. For the obvious, Google has become one of the biggest tech companies the world has ever seen.
With tech companies coming out from nowhere, delivering ideas that could be unique, the word "hustle" has become the representation of eagerness to "move fast and break things."
As many others followed, people in the tech industry have preached and followed this "hustle" word, saying that if they don't hustle enough, they might as well stop trying.
It's no longer a secret that data is a commodity. Those who store control the flow of data, can control practically anything on the web.
This is where privacy issues on the internet are becoming more of a problem. As more people are connected to the internet, they are somehow willing to give data without thinking much, to receive a better experience in what they're doing.