Consider Your Use of Electronic Communications, Including Social Media and the Internet

Essay

Consider your use of electronic communications, including social media and the Internet. When you shop for consumer products or seek out entertainment, do you tend to use this "virtual" infrastructure more, less, or about the same as you use the physical infrastructure (streets, highways, etc.)? In what ways might the former have partially displaced the latter? In what ways might our need for the physical infrastructure have actually increased as Internet use has spread?