Abstract

The article discusses the problem of the Internet development and its impact on the gene pool of humanity and individuals. The author considers an analogy of the evolution of the Internet with the evolution of human information genetic system and discusses disadvantages of the Internet using a comparative analysis. He also describes the comparative quantitative data of Internet development and evolution of the human information system. According to the analogy used, further progress of the Internet is not in expanding the functions but in the creation of a strict and effective “immune” system of and information security. Linguistic communication between the members of a limited community (corporation staff) is a result of the need to join forces for controlling and using natural resources by the members of this group and protecting these resources from other groups. The collective benefits in the competition for resources are provided by specific for a small group (corporation staff) and agreed signs (language) for operations and objects, by the need for competition with other groups for control over resources of life. Nowadays information on the Internet and in other media has become one of the most important resources, for a state too. Using the Internet as a medium of information exchange between people must obey the laws of the historical development of these means in human evolution.

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