Sunday, February 14, 2010
What would happen if the internet just dropped?
Today I've noticed just how much I use the internet and how important it is to be able to have internet access as a college student. I've been catching up on assignments for the most part of the day and I realized that every single one of my assignments I had to use the internet, or my computer for. Not to mention the time in which I was procrastinating doing these assignments, I was either on my blackberry or browsing Facebook. Everything I did today was technologically based. I emailed three of my professors assignments, I researched the history of broadcasting for my research paper using the internet, I'm typing this blog using my internet right now.. Using so much internet access today made me think of the question, what would I do if the internet just failed? What would happen if one day we could no longer access the internet? In thinking about this question I sincerly believe that people would go crazy. I know I would personally feel anxiety and have a sort of "lost" feeling without being able to log on to the internet. Being such a technologically advanced age.. I'm not sure what would the world would come to if we could no longer access the internet. I'm not sure I want to find out either.
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I agree, i feel like a computer is basically useless without an internet. If my laptop had safari, itunes, and word i would be ok in life. I really do not need all of these useless applications.. or i at least think i dont. But if anyone of those applications were permanently deleted i think i would curl up in a ball, especially the internet. it is very sickening to see how much we are dependent on the internet.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I think we're all excessively dependent on computers, but I don't think its a problem that we use it for academics, only when we over rely on it for recreation. I am currently with out a laptop this week and I can tell you that I am wasting less time on stupid distractions than usual.
ReplyDeleteI agree also it is crazy to think how completly dependent our generation has become on the internet. Soon, when the internet does actually collapse, I see much of society collapsing along with it.
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