Improving energy efficiency can deliver a range of benefits to the economy and society. However
Improving energy efficiency can deliver a range of benefits to the economy and society. However energy efficiency programmes are often evaluated only on the basis of the energy savings they deliver. As a result, the full value of energy efficiency improvements in both national and global economies may be significantly underestimated. This also means that energy efficiency policy may not be optimized to target the potential of the full range of outcomes possible. Moreover, when the merit of energy efficiency programmes is judged solely on reductions in energy demand, programmes are susceptible to criticisms related to the rebound effect when the energy. There are some perspectives affecting the internet in future time, some of them are:
1.Social perspective:This perspective deals with how society views the impact of Internet development on languages.The advent of the Internet has revolutionized communication in many ways; it changed the way people communicate and created new platforms with far-reaching social impact. Significant avenues include but are not limited to SMS Text Messaging, e-mails, chat groups, virtual worlds and the Web. The evolution of these new mediums of communications has raised much concern with regards to the way language is being used.
2.Educational perspective:
The educational perspective of internet linguistics examines the Internet's impact on formal language use, specifically on standard English, which in turn affects language education. The rise and rapid spread of Internet use has brought about new linguistic features specific only to the Internet platform. These include, but are not limited to, an increase in the use of informal written language, inconsistency in written styles and stylists and the use of new abbreviations in Internet chats and SMS text messaging.
3.Blogs:
logging has brought about new ways of writing diaries and from a linguistic perspective, the language used in blogs is "in its most 'naked' form" published for the world to see without undergoing the formal editing process. This is what makes blogs stand out because almost all other forms of printed language have gone through some form of editing and standardization.
4.Mobile phones:
Mobile phones (also called "cell phones") have an expressive potential beyond their basic communicative functions. This can be seen in text-messaging poetry competitions such as the one held. The 160-character limit imposed by the cell phone has motivated users to exercise their linguistic creativity to overcome them.
5.Email:
One of the most popular Internet-related technologies to be studied under this perspective is email, which has expanded the stylistics of languages in many ways. A study done on the linguistic profile of emails has shown that there is a hybrid of speech and writing styles in terms of format, grammar and style.
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