Question

Read the passage given below :

In a very short period of time the internet has had a profound impact on the way we live. Since

the Internet was made operational in 1983, it has lowered both the costs of communication and

the barriers to creative expression. It has challenged old business models and enabled new

ones. It has provided access to information on a scale never before achievable. It succeeded

because we designed it to be flexible and open. These two features have allowed it to

accommodate innovation without massive changes to its infrastructure. An open, borderless

and standardized platform means that barriers to entry are low, competition is high,

interoperability is assured and innovation is rapid. The beauty of an open platform is that there

are no gatekeepers. For centuries, access to and creation of information was controlled by the

few. The internet has changed that --and is rapidly becoming the platform for everyone, by

everyone. Of course, it still has a way to go. Today there are only about 2.3 billion internet

users, representing roughly 30% of the world's population. Much of the information that they

can access online is in English, but this is changing rapidly. The technological progress of the

internet has also set social change in motion. As with other enabling inventions before it, from

the telegraph to television, some will worry about the effects of broader access to informationthe printing press and the rise in literacy that it effected were, after all, long seen as

destabilizing. Similar concerns about the internet are occasionally raised, but if we take a long

view, I m confident that its benefits far outweigh the discomforts of learning to integrate it into

our lives. The internet and the world wide web are what they are because literally millions of

people have made it so. It is a grand collaboration. It would be foolish not to acknowledge that

the openness of the internet has had a price. Security is an increasingly important issue and

cannot be ignored. If there is an area of vital research and development for the internet, this is

one of them. I am increasingly confident, however, that techniques and practices exist to make

the internet safer and more secure while retaining its essentially open quality.

After working on the internet and its predecessors for over four decades, I'm more optimistic

about its promise than I have ever been. We are all free to innovate on the net every day. The

internet is a tool of the people, built by the people for the people and it must stay that way.

(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes on it using recognizable

abbreviations (minimum four) wherever necessary. Use a format you consider

appropriate. Supply a suitable title.



(b) Write a summary of the passage in about 80 words.​

Answer 1

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