Week 7

While reading, "The Tragedy of the Commons," I noticed a few major points that must be outlined.  I agree that the population of the future and the problems then faced will be related to social media.  The article also pointed out a few facts and ideas that are very interesting.  The author, Hardin, points out the earth's population has been growing geometrically or better known now as exponentially.  The earth must one day reach a point in time when the population increase is equal to zero.  The article also illustrates how a farmer ponders whether or not to add one more animal to pasture.  The law is that the animal will increase profits and everything positive by +1.  However, the addition of one animal will only decrease the negatives by a fraction of a total -1.  This argument intrigues me, but it also took some time to fully understand.  The article can be related to the internet in that people want a portion of the internet so that someone else cannot have it.     This is in conjunction with data plans from wireless carriers.  Recently companies have been limiting the amount of data that each user can use up.  Very few are still offering a truly unlimited data plan.