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DeaconBlues
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 Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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The End of the Internet!
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| JimmyJazz wrote: | | ... I think it would be better for humanity and our culture... |
Mhh, I don't think watching television is so much better for 'culture'. For the people that use computers and internet as entertainment it'd just be shift from one form of entertainment to another.
| Quote: | | As far as dependency goes, personally I'd rather not be dependent on other people or on a computer, but on myself. |
That sounds great, but meanwhile your life depends on others, if if it isn't directly obvious. How do you get your food, where do you store it, how do you prepare it. What keeps you from freezing in winter? Do you think no computer and no internet makes you independent?
| JimmyJazz wrote: | | ... it is making us incapable of relating to one another on basic, human levels. |
How's that? Explain how, for instance VoIP makes us incapable of relating to one another on basic human levels more then, say, the telephone? Or how is e-mail making you incapable more then postal mail?
That claim is as unfounded as it was when telephony became widespread.
| Quote: | | As far as going without technology for a while, it would make humanity as a whole toughen up, stop bitching, and start experiencing the world around them a little. |
That would toughen us up alright and help you experience the world more, at least, you'd have to if you wanted to survive. Violent crimes were a lot more common in the middle ages then they are today.
| Quote: | | Some day, somehow, things will change...either the system we have will collapse and there will not be an internet, or the internet will change from magical no-holds-barred fantasy land into some sort of oppressive big-brother tool. |
Explain your use of 'either'. What is your reason to assume that the internet as a collection of privately owned and cooperating networks 'will collapse' and why would the only alternative be a big-brother version? |
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