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I want to shut down the internet and cell phone networks globally for a month just to see what would happen.
I must know you. I had this same idea. I would never do it but I thought of what would happen if someone shut down the internet world wide. However my idea was applying to all internet. If you did you might get on the news. So how are you going to do it? Since you are only doing it with cellphones you might just get fined if they catch you. I know if you did it to computers you would probably be labeled a terrorist. My phone does not have internet and the phone that had internet broke. So it would not effect me either. I assume you are going to attack the towers to achieve this.
You mean people would have to live like they were in the 70s ? Ohhhh no !! Yah Id love to see that also because technology is the downfall of this and the next generation. It's quite pathetic how people cannot get their head outta their phone or electronic device now.
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I think most people in the industrialized world would be dead, or certainly a lot worse off than we are now.
I don't think it's at all depressing that we're so reliant on that technology - we've been reliant on innovation for as long as we've been a human species. We'd all die if we decided to snap our fingers and get rid of agriculture, or government or language too.
Younger generations believe that all of the gadgets we rely on are permanent.
We live on shifting tectonic plates, with active volcanoes, in a solar system that's a proven shooting gallery.
Dams, power-plants, and electrical grids are all illusions of permanence. Solar flares, meteors, earthquakes, ice-ages, droughts, floods, gamma ray bursts, and volcanoes happen on a regular basis.
It isn't depressing, and I'm not a prepper...it's just a fact of nature that we live in a cruel and unforgiving universe...and lucked into an unusual period of stability. Most likely...the Midwest of north America, the richest farmland in the world, will become a desert within the next 1000 years...maybe 50, maybe 10,000...it was once an inland sea. One can find shark's teeth in Iowa.
I'm reminded of the statement the Army Corps of Engineers' general made after installing billions of dollars worth of flood control on the Missouri river, "we have finally tamed the 'Mighty Mo'." Twice, since they installed the dam system and spillways in the '30s, it almost burst its banks and regained control of the bottom ground...threatening nuclear power plants and farmland.
...so to answer your question, yes. It would do wonders for a planet full of people who rely on a temporary technological grid to learn what they will experience at some point in their lives...or their children's or grandchildren's lives.
We're too reliant on technology these days. It's rotting out brains. We need to use our imaginations more.
Also, if the Internet went down, we wouldn't have to worry about being spied on or cyber-bullied.
This would be awesome lol. For the first week, no one will have much responsibility as the workforce would probably shut down since they need the internet. Then for the remainder of the month, who knows what would go on? I like this idea.