What will society be like after the internet is turned off?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Do you think we are still the same people who have roamed the earth for thousands of years, or have we become a new society - an ONLINE society? Almost like in the cult movie The Matrix.

For a long time I thought that we are very dependent on the Internet, but did not think how much. Let's face it, a scary and terrible virus has made us stay at home, stay out of the house, and often go to work. Let's try to analyze how much our life has changed and how does it depend on His Majesty the Internet?

I have been sitting at home for 24 days, go outside to walk the dog for 5 minutes and come back. This is how the whole country in which I live now lives (Spain). And it seems to me that people do not feel discomfort, rather the opposite - our society began to love being online. People may or may not answer calls and SMS, postpone the decision on any task until later, and just pretend that they are not there now or they are busy (I haven’t answered one person to a Telegram message for 2 days, I don’t want to). Unlike offline life, this is not verified. What is your friend doing now, what is he doing? Sleeping or just ignoring your call?

What really scares me is the potential problems if the internet breaks down or is turned off. Just imagine that we are dependent on a strange thing called the Internet, 100% invented 40 years ago. We will not be able to order food, buy groceries, call friends or send emails, listen to music, watch a movie. What will we do? How will we communicate while sitting at home in quarantine? Modern homes are no longer equipped with radio points or telephones with wires; these technologies were quickly forgotten. There are almost none.

Mobile voice communication is essentially the same Internet, if you do not go into technical details.

And if you dig deeper? There are many empty cities on the planet now. People sit at home, watch movies and listen to music over the internet (heck, we don't even have CDs or cassettes at home).

Disconnecting the Internet threatens us not only with problems with music and video. Police, firefighters, power plants and even the military are all tied to His Majesty's Internet. What can we say about doctors who take data on drugs and methods of treatment on the Internet. Not because they are such bad doctors, just because there is a lot of information: a person cannot remember everything.

There will be no connection - there will be no opportunity to understand where and what is happening now, chaos will begin. Previously, a boy with a newspaper ran around NY and shouted "Stocks of XXX have fallen, fresh issue, fresh issue!" There is an option to shout from balcony to balcony, of course, but the transmission speed of such information will be very low. What if you need to call a doctor? Call mom who is in another country? I wonder if international communication still exists without the Internet? Booths with telephones from where it was possible to call to other countries will work without it?

Already, in Europe and the world, the Internet speed cannot withstand everyone who sits at home, Netflix and Youtube, at the request of the authorities, have reduced the quality of the video stream to 720p. Just think how important the comrade Internet is, if the authorities ask private companies that show us vidos and serials to reduce the quality of data transmission for the sake of the Internet. For the sake of maintaining the life of the population of the country. What an idiotic, sorry, connection if our lives depend on Netflix and YouTube.

And they are right, I get up in the morning and the first thing I do is read my chats for work in Telegram, then it’s time for emails, I read news on the Internet. For breakfast, I play music via the Home Pod over the internet. All day long I correspond or call up with my acquaintances and at work via the Internet via audio or video communication. My child learns online and plays games online. The wife searches on the Internet for food recipes, discounts in stores, buys groceries and household items via the Internet. In the evening we watch a movie from the Internet, I even order food for dogs on the Internet. Is the word INTERNET too much? But what is really there, he does not even let us go in the toilet, admit it. By the way, I started doing exercises at home, the lessons of which I downloaded from the Internet. I am also learning a foreign language. Guess where?

We even transfer money using the Internet. The ATMs are connected to the Internet.

I do not know what to offer, and how to be in this situation - but usually the dependence on one subject ends very badly. Do world politicians understand this? What about ordinary people? It's just time for us to understand that we need to pray for the presence of the Internet and its work. If tomorrow you wake up and there is no internet, what will the world be like? It seems to me that even the coronavirus pandemic will seem like flowers.