One of the most amazing features of the online experience today is being enabled and being able to share so much online from platform to platform, website to website or any other combination of this.
Anyone can be watching a video at Youtube and can, in seconds, share it to their Twitter or their Google + or Blog.
If you want to share a book you have written you can upload it so easily unto the net and make it available to millions and millions of people or if their is a book you think people should know about, you can scan that book and upload it to a site like archive.org and you have made that book available to millions and millions of people.
Websites such as archive.org, gutenberg.org and Google with their Google Books make so many books available and accesible to so many millions of people for intellectual consumption and most of those books are so valuable to so many people and what is more, a lot of these books are given freely to the public for their enjoyment and intellectual and educational development in whatever subject the books are about. Talk about a humane service to humanity. Making these books accessible like that to so many people is just an indication of lots of goodwill for humanity. Just think of the amount of time and work which had to be put in to make these books available online in digital format. Microsoft has given so much money to these projects, for the purpose of sharing knowledge to humanity.
At that time when it first started, Napster was just the place to be to network about music and by doing that you got to know other people who were sharing their music online so you woudn't have to go and buy it (or steal it lol) at the store or mall. I remember using that program so much and although at the time I did not really understand peer-to-peer file sharing, I would download so much music from Napster that I would sometimes leave the computer on all night so that I could get that album because having that music was really needed by me at that time. I actually remember using AOL disks to get online because I wanted so bad to be online.
Another way of sharing now has come into existence and that is sharing money via peer-to-peer networks. The money is known as bitcoin and although bitcoin is not the only digital money which has existed and exists, bitcoin is the current agreed upon digital currency which can be exchanged for the fiat of countries as well as other digital currencies. And the technology behind it is totally about communication for it were not so, the technology would not work because it is based on an Internet and Web which is totally dependent on the communication of computers and networks for it to work at all.
With the existence of bitcoin, money can be shared across computer networks and social media platforms with an ease that actually scares people.It doesn't scare me. I'm really impressed by the speed of communication of bitcoin and it is what I really like about it and I really like that it is all done via computers and devices. That is really so cool to me. I'm a person who uses a device almost all day and knowing that with a few clicks I can send and receive money without having to use a bank is so wonderful to me and not only that, the idea that money is in the hands of a social network which is governed by people and not just in the hands of a few authoritative persons or institutions is such good news to hear. There is so much freedom there. The way I look at it, there has been a shift from the US dollar being the currency used to base the value of other currencies to the US dollar being the currency used as the base of the value of the bitcoin and bitcoin is governed by the people not by institutions which have been established for more than a hundred years. So there has definitely been a change there.
If you think about it, you can now send real money electronically by use of a currency that totally exists on computer networks and that, so far as recorded history is concerned, has not existed ever. Money has evolved.
Sharing online is becoming very fast and the future of sharing online is very interesting indeed and I"m looking forward to its developments.
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