This article kept mentioning how the founding of the internet is going to change the way we learn and gather information. This reminded me of a video that facebook created. It shows how access to hundreds possibly millions of people can make your research faster and more efficient. Cohen and Rosenzweig’s article states, “such online archives put millions of historical documents at hand twenty-four hours a day and without the cost of a plane ticket or the delay of travel to Washington, D.C., or Chapel Hill, North Carolina.” In the video facebook created a man went to Guyana and found 5,000 unknown species of fish, he uploaded pictures of each one of them and asked his fellow scientist friends to help identify the species and within 24 hours 90 percent of the fish were identified. This just shows the power of the internet and the convenience and efficiency it allows. Similar to the fact that someone living in California may need to access a document in the Library of Congress but cannot afford the plan ticket to Washington D.C, they can just access the information online.

Here is the link to the article: http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/03/facebook-friends-help-scientists-quickly-identify-nearly-500-fish-specimens-collected-in-guyana/

I would be interested in researching the founding of “facebook;” the process, the struggles, the cost etc. Another historical topic I would find interesting is the phenomenon of the invention of the cell phones; what people first thought, how it helped or hurt society. Lastly, look at the “tipping point” of when the internet/ social media/ cell phones overtook America- in others words when America became obsessed with media. Some researchers are starting to argue that America is obsessed with technology.