Nakamura Reading: Where do you want to go today?

The main argument of this reading is the idea of the internet as a "glass window from which network users can consume the sights of travel as if they were tourists" (19), meaning that you don't have to leave your desk chair to travel across the globe. You can sit right where you are in New England, in the depths of frigged winter and be in Bora Bora at the same time vacationing in the sun. Our computers are used as "a window into another world" (19). We are able to do anything these days just by a click of a button. Some might even say that the visions that are given off by their computer monitor are better than reality. The author says that everyplace is just like this because of the easily accessible-ness of going anywhere on your computer. So what's the point of having the choice to travel if everywhere is like here and the same. Computer companies, especially, do this in their ads on tv and on the internet. It shows that there is no need to travel when you can live exotically through your computer and see the world through a square machine looking glass, which doesn't even give any justice to sights seen around the world. I say, just get on a plane and travel. Don't even bring your computer, just get up and go. Stop "traveling" on your computer, and travel the right way. 
I feel like I have an okay grasp on this idea and could possibly explain it and its importance to another WS major/minor not in this class, yet there are still some things that i'm having trouble to grasp. Such as the idea that the internet is a good or bad thing. I have ideas about the ways that the internet harms our society, and the ways it helps...but overall, i couldn't tell you if it's a good thing or not for our society.  .