Culture and Commerce: A World Mixing
The Internet encompasses a wide variety of the world's languages.
The Internet allows people to spread information and opinions through discussion forums, blogs, and vlogs, causing a cultural convergence between people of different backgrounds over the world in a fashion impossible before.
"For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. "
-Tom Peters, American writer on business management
Commercially, the Internet provides services such as shopping websites, stock market info. and platforms for advertising. It provides a place for people to sell their own products to make a profit on sites such as Amazon and Ebay.
"More than half of Students in Brazil, China and Germany buy more online than they do in-store."
-Cisco Technology Report 2011
-Cisco Technology Report 2011