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How To Impact The World In The 2020's
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Our world is a fast-moving place. Now, more than ever, we rely on communicating through our network of computer hardware. Every day millions of web pages are created, billions are read and our world is more connected than ever before.

The volume of information that one individual can access has increased exponentially in the past decades, at a rate that is now impossible to keep up with. 200 years ago, a scholar didn’t have the ability to read every book that existed about a field, or the ability to converse with someone that they couldn’t physically travel to. The problem we had 200 years ago was accessibility, and the scholars with the most money and connections were able to access more information and make the most meaningful contributions to the world.

.. highlights:: **In 2020, an intelligent person can access almost any information that any other person in the world possesses.**

The latest scientific papers for any field, educational resources on any topic and personal photos of any individual’s recent holiday are all taps away. The problem we have now is not accessibility, it is filtering this sheer volume of data to find useful information.

Humans are very slow at reading and comprehending all this raw data, which is where computers help us out. A computer can read a thousand books in a second, and tell you exactly where to find the phrase you’re looking for. A computer can search through billions of web pages, and return you one specifically about the lifestyle of an emperor penguin.

.. highlights:: **If you take an intelligent person, and you teach them how to code, they become intelligent beyond belief.**

Data exists everywhere, but data is not automatically information. Creating information involves taking that data, transforming it and creating conclusions. Those conclusions form your knowledge base, which allows you to take more informed actions and have a meaningful, lasting impact on the world.
If you find yourself struggling to make an impact in our modern world, learning how the internet works is absolutely the quickest way to convert the mass of raw data into useful information, which leads to the knowledge you can exploit to create the outcome you want. We have technology that makes us seem godlike to our ancestors of as few as 4 generations ago.

| **You can** create a useful web application that saves humans millions of hours of work.
| **You can** interpret huge databases of information to gain insights into the nature of global pandemics and enact policy that protects thousands of lives.
| **You can** implement services that allow us to maintain close relationships with loved ones across the ocean.

As a web developer, I have spent years learning how to create interactive content for other humans, and how to communicate with silicon chips, manipulating them to do hard work for me through code. I am creating a series of very simple tutorials that take apart every aspect of the web and split them up into chunks that can be explained to anyone in less than 5 minutes.

.. highlights:: **My goal is to create simple explanations for every single concept related to web development, from HTML to Hashing algorithms.**

You can get started with my web fundamentals course to learn about HTML, CSS, JavaScript and browsers. This foundational knowledge is required to fully access the wealth of knowledge that exists on the internet and is applicable to every single career in the modern age.


Start here with Web Fundamentals: :doc:`web-fundamentals`