Can you imagine a world without internet ? I know it is very hard to even conceive of such an idea but if your are in your thirties then you need to think just a little back back to the 1980s and the early 1990s when there was no such a thing called Internet. Insterad of sending an email we would send mail using post office and wait for weeks for an answer, and instead of going to Google news we would buy newspapers, and instead of YouTube we would have a VHS video recorder or Walkman cassette recorder.
Life seems a little bit harder when compared with the extravagent style we have today, but yet we used to enjoy it, it had its own taste and probably as you are reading these lines now your memory is deep into recollections of such beautiful times when there was no advanced technology.
Below is an awesome infographic that will remind you of some of the facts of the world with and without internet. Please read and share.
Via: OnlineEducation.net
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I'm not sure I agree that the world is better with internet. There are advantages and disadvantages of any system. Not everyone will even agree on how to classify outcomes: pro or con. New jobs are valuable to an economy, yes - but they come with a loss of existing jobs in the replaced industries, and an opportunity cost - the new jobs the old industries would have created as they grew and advanced, had they not become obsolete. Then there are a whole slew of quality of life outcomes. The internet has increased our screen time - time that cannot be used for other things. The internet has changed how we process information and the value we place on content and those who create it. Is an internet job more satisfying than it's non internet counterpart? Nothing is so black and white, and many more years must pass before we can come to some consensus.
ReplyDeleteDifferent, yes. Better: Who can say how history would have played out had the internet not been created and embraced? Likewise, while I can imagine a terrible future that is only possible with large scale data/control systems that day has not arrived yet and is as speculative as pondering possible alternate pasts.
More and more I doubt that progress is really so wonderful though. I feel that our technological advancements outpace our cultural/social/moral/spiritual growth. Larger, faster, more powerful may simply be shortening the fuse on our own undoing. Ultimately, it is human nature that will determine the future of our planet and species. Good or bad, technology will merely amplify.