Life before the Internet was stifling, and confining. While you were roaming the countryside, you felt imprisoned. Now if you have an Internet connection in a prison cell, you feel liberated.
I disagree. Back then roaming the countryside you actually felt more free, because you didn't feel like almost everywhere you went that someone could snap a photo of you and post it on the internet.
You didn't have people almost everywhere with the ability to watch your every move and look up anything they wanted about you at a push of a button.
Identity theft was much less common. The days before the internet were more liberating.
I spent a fair amount of my youth roaming the countryside, and I definitely never felt imprisoned. Nor do I recall feeling stifled or confined in what probably seems to you to be ancient times.
I strongly suspect you're not old enough to remember life before the internet.
I think humanity was better before the internet, but I don't think it will get better now if the internet stops, the damage is too far gone.
And, there is no way the internet is really going to stop. It was another global revolution. It would be like getting rid of all cars after inventing cars and going back to horse and carriage.
Would no more internet improve society?
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Life before the Internet was stifling, and confining. While you were roaming the countryside, you felt imprisoned. Now if you have an Internet connection in a prison cell, you feel liberated.
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I disagree. Back then roaming the countryside you actually felt more free, because you didn't feel like almost everywhere you went that someone could snap a photo of you and post it on the internet.
You didn't have people almost everywhere with the ability to watch your every move and look up anything they wanted about you at a push of a button.
Identity theft was much less common. The days before the internet were more liberating.
I spent a fair amount of my youth roaming the countryside, and I definitely never felt imprisoned. Nor do I recall feeling stifled or confined in what probably seems to you to be ancient times.
I strongly suspect you're not old enough to remember life before the internet.
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I remember internet free life. Tree climbing, rope swinging, field frolicking fun.
And a few years later it all went downhill when I bought a pager.
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I think humanity was better before the internet, but I don't think it will get better now if the internet stops, the damage is too far gone.
And, there is no way the internet is really going to stop. It was another global revolution. It would be like getting rid of all cars after inventing cars and going back to horse and carriage.