I mean how would we ever manage without it ? Would it mean the end of civilization as we know it ? or would we just go back to regular socialising again ?
2006-09-07 07:55:30 · 44 answers · asked by The all seeing all knowing one 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I kinda get the feeling that not many folks would actually miss it ! but then again i could be wrong ?
2006-09-07 08:01:40 · update #1
It might even be kinda fun to try it for a week or two - but how to get EVERYONE to do it ?
2006-09-07 08:07:55 · update #2
We'd have to go back to talking to each other and looking things up in books again. Damn!
2006-09-07 07:57:32 · answer #1 · answered by babalu2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Civilization has progressed for many thousands of years without the internet, as a matter of fact I grew up when Microwaves where a novelty, VCR’s just came onto the market etc etc.
Being without the internet is a very real threat by the way. At lest for parts of the country. As the Soviet developed so called EMP pulse bombs during the last years of the cold war area. If detonated at a certain altitude, such a bomb would take out every computer and electronic device almost over the entire lower 48 states. Why is this a threat? Because several of these bombs are missing...and if they end up in the hands of Bin Laden and they find a delivery vehicle they just might use it...Also the bombs the former soviet union had and still accounted for are still pointed at us as well. And who knows who has the finger on the button tomorrow in Russia?
Yes some of our military equipment is "hardened" against such an attack, but none of our commercial electronic infrastructure is.
So your question might be answered by reality sometimes soon!
Yes there will be chaos, most of the money in the US exists electronically only and will be gone. Savings, ATM’s, Salary everything gone....
No commerce no food on your table etc.
But humanity will or would survive and find other means of communication until the "net" would be fixed again.
Hope I didn't scare you
2006-09-07 08:10:11 · answer #2 · answered by Scott or Martin S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be a very demobilizing thing for companies. So many companies now have set up every thing through internet, that it's all they rely on. I know how heavily my own company relies on internet as a University. I think for personal every day use, there are some people it might send spiraling, but it really depends on how heavily a person connected with the internet is. I don't think it would be the end of civilization since ease of communication doesn't dictate the actual ability to communicate, it simply makes it easier and faster to do so. People would most certainly not just stop communicating, but they would need to go back to the good old phone - so long as they didn't have that connected through internet lol.
People managed long before internet came along, and much more eloquently too.
2006-09-07 08:05:26 · answer #3 · answered by saintlyinnocents 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well first some would probably smash their computers, others would realise that their is more to life than a small screen with imaginery playmates....but myself..well I would miss it because when I finish work after a 15 hour shift I come home, shut off and spend an hour or so just relaxing, having a laugh at some of the questions and answers, or ponder a serious thought or two..but I do have a life as well...Im not glued to the internet.
2006-09-07 08:03:06 · answer #4 · answered by Sunseaandair 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not civilisation, but it could inconvenience a lot of people. Think of the business that's done online, the data transfer- some hospitals rely on the internet to function, so you're talking lives as well. Think about it in the same way as if every car in the world stopped during the rush hour. It wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would be a disaster.
2006-09-07 08:02:59 · answer #5 · answered by ChrisJFraser 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. That is why Y2K was getting people all hyped up. You know, every now and then some wierdos cause some big ruccus, and it turns out to be nothing at all, and then we just forget it. Don't people read Mystery Books anymore? The most likely thing is that all this is a diversion from something important going on! Why are people not curious anymore? Like Einstien said, "The important thing is to not stop questioning."
2006-09-07 08:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by Datura 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd just go back to making a lot of phone calls, visiting the library again for reference, using my electric typewriter, and mailing letters. I began using a computer a decade ago at my job, then went without one for 8 years. Now that I have a home PC, it's great and I love it, but it wouldn't make my life unmanageable or horrible if it were gone.
2006-09-07 08:04:58 · answer #7 · answered by HisChamp1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be a bit lost without it at first as its a lifeline for me, I have relatives and friends all over the world and its so easy to just email them and much quicker than a letter, but I guess I would get used to not having it if it was no longer here and I'd go back to hand written letters and do the things I keep promising myself I will instead of been on here so much, please don't get rid of it.
2006-09-07 12:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'll be a major shock to the system that's for sure but for people like me who always get distracted from work on the net it can only be a good thing in the long run.
2006-09-07 08:01:32 · answer #9 · answered by Nosheen Elfqueen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question (and ditto with mobile phones). I think there would be mass panic. Doesn't bear thinking about.
Actually, it'd be a nightmare to begin with, then we'd get used to it and go back to how we were 10-15 years ago (when it became mainstream).
2006-09-07 07:59:08 · answer #10 · answered by StoryGirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋