What would life be like without the Internet?
Read the following text and then answer the questions
1 to 3.
How would having no Internet affect the general
personal user? Well apart from every teenager screaming because they can’t log
on to Facebook, it all comes down to how much we personally use the Internet
and what for.
Many of us use the Internet to communicate, especially
those in the lower age brackets above 10 years. From email to chat forums,
social networks, dating sites and even virtual worlds our demands on the
Internet for social communication and networking are huge. So it’s easy to
anticipate that a life without the Internet would force people to turn back to
grass roots and socialize and communicate on a very basic level.
My worry with this though, specifically within the
lower age brackets is will the people who’ve grown up with the Internet around
them be able to embrace social engagement on a grass roots level and know how
to socialize?
We use the Internet to communicate more than ever and
it’s become an integral part of any standard means of communication. So with no
Internet our means of communication would have to adapt. I very much doubt
we’ll be sending smoke signals, but letters would fulfill the whole emails left
and phones would fulfill the gaps that instant messaging, chat and social media
created.
An increase in posted mail and phone calls would
surely benefit our local postal services and telephone network providers, but
what we loved about the Internet was that communication was free!
We all know the Internet is a massive resource
directory, full of useful and useless information, all beautifully at our finger tips. So
without it where would we find out the chemical compound of silver, or the
world record time for eating after eights?
Books! Quite simply, we’d resort back to the old
school principle of reading books from libraries. It would definitely be harder
finding the equivalent information that the Internet can provide in your local
library but if you think about it the Internet basically took the concept of a
library and expanded it by about a million times!
Above all we have to remember we got to where we are
today without the Internet. The Internet was a technological advancement that
excelled us into the 21st century and changed the way we socialized, did
business and purchased goods.
It paved the way to the future and still has many
exciting advancements ahead of itself. Witnessing the loss of the Internet is
probably very unlikely, but either way I’m quite sure as a human race we’d
adapt and persevere as we have done for thousands of years.
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