Would you make the internet disappear and go back to 80s/70s technologies if you could wish it?
I’m 48 and frequently reminisce about pre-internet pop culture, tv, local stations, library books, not having all the answers at your fingertips, fads that took months or years to run their course and of course outside time with friends, waiting for phone calls, all of it.
And the question I ask myself is, if I could make the internet and cells phones disappear as if they never happened, would I? Would we all be better for a simpler life? Would it be worth losing all of the benefits the internet provides - educational, social, entertainment, financial and all of the more sophisticated media (think of the amazing tv shows we have now vs the amateur hour stuff we often watched growing up).
So what would you do? Keep it or banish the web and digital communication from existence?
I’m 48 and frequently reminisce about pre-internet pop culture, tv, local stations, library books, not having all the answers at your fingertips, fads that took months or years to run their course and of course outside time with friends, waiting for phone calls, all of it.
And the question I ask myself is, if I could make the internet and cells phones disappear as if they never happened, would I? Would we all be better for a simpler life? Would it be worth losing all of the benefits the internet provides - educational, social, entertainment, financial and all of the more sophisticated media (think of the amazing tv shows we have now vs the amateur hour stuff we often watched growing up).
So what would you do? Keep it or banish the web and digital communication from existence?