Internet Conveniences

Alec Sturos, Tyler Sturos, Fred Perret, Eric Laabs

• Entertainment• Everyday Life• Collaboration• Business• Travel• Finances

Overview

• Open to anyone• Any Petitions• E-signatures• Actually work!

Petitions

• Small Business• Inventors• Musicians• Any Entrepreneurs

Crowd Funding

• Tomnod• Malaysian Air Crash• Over 2 million people helping

Search Parties

• Allows for collaborative office documents

• Synchronized calendar

• Free substitution to office

Google Drive

• Allowed for larger scale multiplayer games

• Browser based games

• Giant scale game distribution/ social gaming

Internet Gaming

• Changed the way we buy and listen to music

• Internet radio

• Gives new artists opportunities to get big

Music

• Killed video rental stores

• Online video subscriptions

• Online Episodes

Television/ video rental

• Allowed everyday people to get rich• Gave people an easy way to share videos

Viral Videos

• No more reading paper maps• Turn by turn

directions• Allows people to

find more restaurants and businesses• Makes travel easier,

quicker and better

Maps

• No more written letters• Used for just about all business

communications• Used for most logins and user

names• Simply connects people

E-mail

• Current Events• Sports• Newspapers

o i.e. Daily Mining Gazette Mobile App

• Set news as homepageo i.e. Yahoo, MSN

News

• No more risking a rainy day at the beach• No more watching the entire

news to find out the weather at the end of the cast• Personalized weather

o Keweenaw research center

Weather

• Now everyone is their own little genius

• Can search up a certain fact whenever

• Essential for school• Textbooks are becoming

outdatedo i.e. some schools are using

only ipads and such• Online databases• Google!!

Research

• Easy way for companies to find talented employees

• Digital Interviews

• Virtual meeting rooms

Linkedin

• Check Balances• No balancing

checkbooks• Cash checks via cell

phone• Card Readers• Smart Phone

Applications• Money is safe• ATM’s

Banking

• eBay, amazon, stores individual sites • Shipping prices decreased• Buying used items

o Craigslisto eBayo Facebook

• Cyber Monday• Shopping faster and easier

Shopping

• Less confusion at airports• Less waiting in line for

tickets• Pay, Print, Board• expedia, priceline,

truvia and other travel sites

Air Travel

• Tax experts no longer needed• Software such as TurboTax • No paying anyone for taxes• Provides step by step help on

completing taxes• Larger Refunds• You can file them online

Taxes

• Different way to find mate• For those avoiding the bar

scene• Broad demographics

o eharmonyo match

• They also have more focused sites that include o blackpeoplemeeto ourtimeo christiansmingleo farmersonly

Online Dating

• Supercenters is all we will needo CostCoo Walmarto Sams Club

• Stores will become unnecessaryo Art Vano BestBuyo Clothing stores

• Create a lazier society

What Happens Next

Idiocracy Example