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What will life be without internet connection?
Posted by muffin • 8/23/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: internet
Have you ever imagine your life will be without internet connection?
For me, surfing internet is just like an drug addiction and i need to access it everyday. If no internet, i think i will become mad.
How about you?
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I don't have to imagine it--I was well into my thirties before I had internet in my home. I'd probably have to go out to work rather than working from home, but other than that I think it might actually be a positive change--I think the Internet, convenient as it is, feeds a sense of "everything right now" that isn't necessarily healthy. -
Social interactions would be different, but life would be completely unchanged. -
I have been without internet many times. It really only makes getting porn harder.-
I'll let you borrow my big box of porn. I'll even throw in Boner Jams '08. It's a mix tape I made of all these great scenes I was really into in the summer of 2008. -
dis... tur... bing..... -
I'm guessing you've never seen The 40 Year Old Virgin?
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darned cultural references
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Without the internet, and specifically Mapquest.com, my life would be 100x harder.
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did he actually say the words "boner jam" ?? o_0 -
Hey now, you commented under the wrong comment.
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Things would be way to slow. Once you are shown greatness it is hard to go back
mobile phone, tv, computer games... -
Just think... if it wasn't for Albert Gore and those other congressmen that voted for DarpaNet...
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I would finally loss that ten pounds that I've been complaining about! -
Stone Age ! -
E.M. Forster described exactly this scenario in his short story "The Machine Stops" - even though he was writing a long time before the Machine started!-
I wouldn't say it was "exactly this scenario"--at least, not yet. In Forster's story humans had no physical interaction whatsoever and were dependent on the "machine" for their subsistence, even for the air they breathed.
I agree that Forster's descriptions of human interaction, written a hundred years ago, are uncannily close to today's realities, but we're nowhere near the situation he described at this point. We certainly would not, as Forster's characters did, simply die if the machine stopped. -
I dunno - some of us might. LMAO! -
Forster was writing a cautionary tale, a fable. I don't think even he expected things to go that far.
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Really, NP? I'm not at all sure that's true. How far removed do you think we are from a similar eventuality right now? And pieces of what Forster described are dead-on--specific to the point of appearing almost prophetic. Literature is full of "cautionary tales": 1984, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, and Fahrenheit 451, for example. I wouldn't say that it's clear in any of those examples that the author was exaggerating for effect--I think that they were describing the far end of what they saw as the natural progression of certain negative trends in society in their own time.
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Madame X-it's hard to assess what the writers intentions (in any of those cases) really were. But there's a lot of merit to your point of view. Certainly, they were describing possibilities, many of which have come to pass. I'm sure by writing those cautionary tales they were hoping to avert the possible disaster ahead. How far do I think we're removed from a similar eventuality right now? I'd say very far removed. There will always be people like you and me, and millions of others, who defend humanity against these dehumanizing traps.
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MX I think your points are very fair - that's taught me to be more careful with the word "exactly" ...
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How would we organize tea-bagging parties?
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Semaphore?
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Well, one thing for sure - everybody who is 18 and under will be completely lost!
Unfortunately, the world is so dependent on it now, we just won't be able to operate without internet. -
Frankly I can imagine it. I still love doing snail mail and the anticipation of receiving one after a week or two. Music? I can just play my old vinyls or listen to the radio...read books. Write a journal in my little book...you know what i don't think it's that bad really -
I tried a few times to move to a secluded place where I can grow my own food, generate electricity with windmill by no internet idea always put me off -
Working at home would once again be a hands on experience. Stuffing envelopes, making bead jewelery & data entry onto disk.... Oh yeah, here come the 80's... -
you are right ....i don't think i'll survive at all....i do most of the stuff on the net ...... -
I enjoy talking to people here at blogcatalog and posting on my blog. I also enjoy googling but what would be the hardest for me without the Internet is the fact that the stock market wouldn't be quite as easy. I grew up without the Internet. Think I was 20 the first time I went online and at first it wasn't my thing. Then it grew on me. -
Can we say ARMEGEDON... no just joshin,life goes on -
Ha ha ...LOL! I'm posting this from a public library computer. It sucks! -
About 6 months or so ago I had some issues with my bills and had the option of paying the electric or the phone and internet ... It was an obvious choice .. well that and considering that with no electric, the puter was useless anyway lol ..
So, I went without phone/internet service for a month. I ended up reading 5 good sized books and actually went outside more (self education .. shocking, I know) ...
A break once in a while is never a bad thing if it puts things back into perspective. -
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yes poodle, was that a question?
lol ..
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Right now? it'll be a big mess because my work needs internet connection. -
hmmm.... when I was young, television was a relatively new technology. If and when I encountered a television set, broadcasts were live and in black & white. Telephones were analog, with party lines. The first computer in town occupied an *entire* elementary school building converted to that purpose. My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with a screamin' 1.7 MHz processor and 4k RAM with BASIC as an OS.
Life without computers? Easy. -
My phone died with about 30 minutes left at work leaving me without internet until getting home, it was a very close call thought I was gonna go into withdrawal lol -
Life is boring without an internet but still life must go on without it. -
if the internet was turned off tomorrow i reckon the media world would fall apart, the financial world would take its biggest hit ever, the telecom industry would falter. Lots of things would go wrong.-
'Losing the media' and 'go wrong' = contradictio in terminis
Methinks losing the media, for the most part, would be the greatest thing since blueberry bagels and chai tea.
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it was series of South Park about internet failure ))) -
I don't need to imagine life without the internet, we never had it until I was in my 30's. It is like a lot of technology, very useful and I enjoy the advantages that come with it: being able to talk in real time with family overseas with skype, listening to bbc radio programs in yellow springs ohio, networking as an artist is much easier, art opportunities, looking for a house and scoping an area, planning a trip. all these are much better since the internet. -
We would probably read more, personally interact with people and survive. The internet is a great tool but it is only as good as the people who use it.-
Speaking for myself my reading habits haven't changed net or no net, nor my personal interaction. In fact it seems to be as bustling as much as ever and the net (such as facebook) has added to that to a degree.
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At this point I'd suffer without internet because I have the luxury of using it every day.
However, if there never WAS internet in the first place we wouldn't know what we were missing and wouldn't care. -
I'm over 50 and I only started using a computer five months ago. It's a wonderful toy but I don't think I"d have much trouble living and being happy without it.
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