It is not always a choice. At times, it is a choice that must be made. Often, when it is a choice, there is conflict. In other cases, there is no choice.
I like to think that this is primarily the case with the way that the Internet functions. For every person there is a job to be done, and the Internet allows for outsourcing of many of these jobs. For example, what we might call “in-house” is more complex than simply making a product. So when the Internet allows for the creation of one product (like the new version of our website), the Internet allows for the creation of several such products.
The point is, the Internet is a tool that is used for multiple purposes. It is the one-stop shop for many different tasks. It is used for the creation of things, but it is also used for distribution, for making things available to many different people. So we can think of the Internet as a tool that is used in a variety of ways.
In an earlier post we looked at the Internet’s purpose and function in the context of its usefulness. That post is part of our new series on the Internet’s purpose and function.
In any case, we can think about the Internet as a tool that is both a good and a bad thing. It is a tool that is good because it is used to create things that we need, but also a tool that is bad because it is used for outsourcing, the transfer of tasks over the Internet. In a world where computers are so cheap, and network connections are so plentiful, the Internet is the one thing that we have to be careful about.
The fact is that there are very few people who know how to use computers to do anything. The vast majority of us who do know how to use computers are the ones who pay for them. The way we do this is by outsourcing our tasks. For example, we all know how to use a computer to do math. We may not know how to use it to do the same thing. We all know how to use a computer to do “website design.
But we all know how to use the Internet to do just that. That’s one reason why we’re all on the Internet, and that’s why we’re all connected to each other on the Internet.
This is one of the most common reasons why we do what we do because it is one of the main ways for people to get their work done. If we can do our work on the Internet, we can do it wherever we go. If we cannot do our work on the Internet, we will be left behind.
Companies that do this kind of work can be called “outsourcing” because they get a lot of work done in the same place they are. Outsourcing, for example, can be done by a hospital or a factory or a government administration or a corporation or an airline or a university or even a city.
Outsourced logistics are still logistics. And they are still out of our control. We can complain about it, but we have no way to stop it.