After reading this article which I enjoyed, it got me thinking. Could the world today live tomorrow if there were no Internet.
Read this article and tell me your thoughts
http://www.smh.com.au/national/what-if-they-pulled-the-plug-…
The end of the Internet. The end of the world?
Moots on 28/03/2013 - 01:11
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No internet = no Ozbargain and no online retailers.
I think Gerry Harvey would be the only person on earth who's happy about that…
Get real. Gerry not complain???? He'd find something else faster than you or I could connect to the NBN.
Actually that's a poor analogy but you get what I mean.. LOL
@punk
You wouldnt be able to fly let alone book, the airlines were one of the first to use the internet, Sabre etc and all the booking systems depend on links provided by the internet.
Sure you could phone in, but to where? the main system located in some desert town in the US? And now the phone system is totally dependent on the internet, switching gear etc.
How would codeshares work?
Its not about Joe average which the SMH article tends to focus on, its all the back end systems.
Its a bit like saying no more cars/trucks, now use horses instead. We could do it? Yep in the country maybe but where would you hitch your horse when you live on the 55th floor?
The mind boggles, in fact I think the implications would be horrendous, not worth contemplating as its too hard for one brain to figure out. Now networked computers might be able to solve it? But thats not possible.
Obviously the first action would be to break links to the outside world, not great but a little better than shutting the whole system down completely.
Just because there was a world before the "internet" doesn't mean we could survive without it again.
Does that mean we could survive in a world without power?, running water?, medicine? We require all of these things because of the lifestyle we have invented and developed.
Nothing. Life will go on. Mankind has survived without it for a long long time, we can go back to pre-internet times if we had to.
Nothing. Life will go on.
After all the shop looting, vandalism, stock market crash, business bankruptcy and mass unemployment has occured, then yes, I suppose we would eventually settle into pre-internet times. Could take a little while to adjust though!
if we don't all die of mass spread disease or being killed by rebel factions trying to take control of what is left.
No worries. I'll just dig out the CB radio (the 40 channel one with upper and lower sideband), high gain antenna and listen to the chatter on the air waves again.
10-4 good buddy :-)
what would JV do without the internet?
No, what would the internet do without JV!!!
I think in today's era people live with internet, they get every news, conversation or update in a real time but once internet will end than they really have to struggle to get this things fix and may be some of them couldn't live :) :P :)
i donot think i could cope. i have spare router in break in case of emergency box in my server room.
of course not unless you're about 10 and know nothing of the world before the "internet".
Certain ways of doing things will be much harder because of the convergence of the internet with everyday devices like our Mobile Phones, tools for business transactions, emergency systems etc.
I purposely try to disconnect from the online world when I'm on holidays. Certain things like booking a flight and some mapping services are still needed (just easier) but generally everything else is good to go. As easier as it has made our lives the more crap I now got to deal with so that explains why my holidays are generally offline.
Internet has made things easier and for some people it is their lives (work) but it's not the end all until were hooked up like the matrix ;)