source caused it quite suddenly to cease functioning for a long but unspecified amount of time?
2007-12-13 00:03:47 · 8 answers · asked by Sue 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I would have disastrous consequences,that's for sure.But maybe it would be somehow better to make world lesser dependent on internet...
2007-12-13 00:15:55 · answer #1 · answered by Opera Phantom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably are but the odds of anything happening world-wide is fairly slim. If it did short term chaos in the financial markets to start with and people would have to write snail mail, read papers and watch the news, and learn to speak to each other again. Information would not be as readily available which might be a mixed blessing since rumors and "fake news" wouldn't either. Society has gotten very used to the idea that information is readily and quickly available but that is honestly in the context of history a very new thing. We would just have to roll back the clocks 40 years or so and do business and communication as we did at that time. Most businesses, especially large ones, have backup systems that do not depend as much on the Internet-the one thing hackers have done is keep intelligent businesses from being totally dependent on the Internet; still would be suffering, massive panic (Y2K panic should be familiar) but people and businesses would adjust and things would get back to normal just a little slower.
2007-12-13 01:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by GunnyC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of roughly that fairly commonly. i've got faith that we as a society are completely based on technologies. And the greater we are given, the greater we choose. it somewhat is only approximately like a dependency. Or a curse! this question jogs my memory of a video that I observed mutually as taking instructions in college. It grew to become right into a pair of power outage in a significant city (thinks long island yet unsure). How long did your final power outage final? That maximum appropriate there'll positioned every physique returned into the Stone Age.
2016-11-26 19:18:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would adapt and do well too.
We have been hit with things far worse than losing the Internet.
The Great Depression
WWII
Every so often I turn the TV and internet for a month and read.
Spend time with family and friends.
If we do more of that we have a whole lot less trouble.
2007-12-13 00:11:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent point. Yes we have become way to dependent on the internet, computers, etc. Time to get back to basics.
2007-12-13 01:03:10 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Internet was designed by the defense department specifically to survive a simultaneous attack on several cities.That was the idea behind it since it's conception back in the early 1960's.
2007-12-13 00:23:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine world-wide economics would suffer, efficiancy would drop and I would have to go to the video store for porn.
Strange question for the military section
2007-12-13 00:08:33 · answer #7 · answered by Jon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
independent of the internet, natural disasters would occur when it is time, none can stop them.
2007-12-13 21:52:06 · answer #8 · answered by jimmybond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋