March 13, 2007
All Good Things Come to an End..
Yeah, everything does come to an end. TV shows, movies, stuff like that. Along with love, marriage, friendships and eventually, life. They all come to an end.
The same goes for our little blog reporting about the results of our escapades.
Well, this survey took up a lot of our free time. Lots of sweat, blood, tears and talking, and going from place to place surveying people for the sake of our project and the curious public that just happens to pass by our little corner (the web has a corner?) of cyberspace. This survey has enlightened us on a small part of what our country is going through in this topic.
Conclusion: People do use the internet, to an extent, for reasons as numerous as the people themselves. The CQ stated in our previous post, Final Results, gave an average of a 150+ Connectivity Quotient. This number isn’t bad out of a total of 200. However, we were surprised about the strangely low scores in Gateway. We interviewed practically all kinds of people. Here, we may hypothesize, that the youth is more in-tune with the internet than their elders. The elder population has gotten used to older methods of data transfer like landlines and snail mail. They are slow to adopt newer technologies as they are content with present ones. Though in our country, almost everyone has a cellular phone and primarily uses it for texting to communicate, most people are happy with their simple, two-color, call-and-text-only phones. We interviewed mostly students in our other outings into the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Ateneo campus (High School). These people literally blazed through our survey answering yes to all 4 questions we threw at them, save a very few number. The youth are not content with older methods and are quicker to adopt newer technologies. These people, we believe, want their information lightning fast and a source that they can access on the go. The internet is going from traditional desktop/laptop access to smart-phone and PDA access. We emphasized the fact that people who adopt newer technologies push the envelope of technological advancement. The advancements made on higher tech will lower costs for older technologies, making a reasonable internet connection (Dial-Up is still internet!) possible for the masses. The faster the internet becomes a necessity for people, the faster it’ll develop and lower costs.
So yes, we do believe that the flat world is accessible to everyone. Maybe not in this generation, it takes time.
