Digital Nation

Scott Uria

Kelly Warren

Digital Nation Blog Entry

            The digital world that we live in has made life much simpler in one aspect, and much more complex in another. With the World Wide Web, our world appears to be much smaller than it did some twenty-five plus years ago. During my early military career, while deployed, it could take a couple of weeks to receive a letter. If I needed to send money back to the states, I either wrote out a check or got a money order to mail off. Towards the end of my career, the same situations could be handled with a click of a button. I can recall back in 1992, while deployed to Guam, if I wanted to call home, I had to go through several base operators throughout the states to get connected for my “morale call.” Today service members will Skype when calling home. How cool is that?  On the complex side of things, because technology changes so quickly, one will constantly have to learn new systems. Because of technology, identity theft is on the rise, and hackers can easily access your bank, email, and work accounts. With the internet, there are more and more stories of a spouse meeting someone online, leading to an all-time high in divorce. With the changes I have seen over the years, it’s just a matter of time before our world self-destructs.