The Power of the Internet.

Some people spend much of there waking life online, others have never touched it, but only a philistine would fail to see that it has potential almost beyond comprehension.

I wouldn’t consider myself as someone who spends a lot of time online but in terms of communications it is by far the medium I use the most, I use voice services to talk to friends and relatives round the world, email to communicate on a daily basis, blogs to publish information to others and the web to collaborate and gather information.

I have been using the internet since the early days of ‘consumer’ services appeared and now I use it at work, at home and I carry it around in my pocket, all at speeds only a few years ago would have seemed unimaginable. Since it’s early days the World Wide Web has approached more of a two way model (with greater user contribution), the so called Web 2.0, collaboration on a grand scale has emerged with sites like Wikipedia which contains over 2 million user contributed articles.

This project puts a nice twist on the online collaboration in that the end product is an ‘offline’ piece of work, a tangible product you can sit down with flick through the pages and doesn’t disappear of your bookshelf when your ISP has a round of technical difficulties.

Despite what some people may think, the book is not dead. Sure, when it comes to the latest hot off the press news about the latest and greatest technology this week the Internet is your source, but the quality of even the most authorative Internet sources will not stand up to the quality of information within a book.

It is these things that are going to make this project great to be a part off.