Topic: Where would society be without the internet? - page 33. (Read 24611 times)

Here on Earth, the magic of distances largely been murdered by the Internet. This opens the possibility to look for this magic in the cosmos but instead of this our leaders continue to try to focus our attention on the elements of everyday life and they pushing us towards mutual destruction.

The same as before Internet age.
We will learn to live without Internet, and nobody will die and society will not collapse because of luck of Internet
People managed to live without Internet for centuries so no doubt that they can live without Internet again.
Of course, life will be much more difficult and complicate but people an adapt to any situation, no doubt about it.

The advantage of this one is human bound will more intact to each other and accompanion with other people will be the main thing. But there's also a disadvantage that the information we need will be kept and never be revealed.

Well I think it would be hard to imagine the society now without the internet. I Think it will be hard to communicate with each other if internet does not exist. If it does not exist, I think crypto-currencies would not be invented too.

I think generally people would be a lot less nasty and hateful if we didn't have the internet. Without the internet it would be a lot harder for individual extremist groups spread all over the world to draw on the kind of energy power and confidence they have access to right now.
One thing's for sure if the internet didn't exist most of my time would be spent daydreaming 

Without Internet, we are totally dependent on conventional traditional ways

it will never became a lost for all people if ever we dont have internet we can still be more efficient and productive to work . it is just letting those people to be lazy about doing such task .

We are all at peace I guess.  People will be friendly and true with their feelings.  Happy family with no broken marriages because family members will have more time talking about each others problems. Everyone is healthy since everyone will have an ample time of sleep.  People will not spent all their time just sitting in front of the  computer.  No one will become a victim of cyber bullying.  It is just a peaceful earth. 

i completely agree with you .. humanity dont need internet to survive on earth.. we can stay alive and continue our lifes without any internet connection as our ancestors did before..

We are pushed continuously with the internet. But as said nowadays the reading mentality has reduced a lot. I have seen a very little people getting engaged in reading from libraries. I feel these were some facts which got erased due to internet.

 In remote places of the world where is not teaching. Those who do not know that little civilization. The society's course without the internet.

If there is no internet, society will have more quality time with their families. And surely, people will get to know each other personally. All people will be hardworking , because internet causes people to be lazy.

If there isn't any internet people will go parks, and ill just add
this in the poor areas of brazil the kids will kick footballs
and one day become a famous star like neymar, sanchez.
there are also drug addicts for the ones who
are lazy and dont care

you are right .. we can find information from books library etc.. but in our modern world, we must hurry to handle our daily stuff so we are doomed to use internet one way or another..

Our means of communication would be way more stunted; we'd have to rely on central distributors like newspapers and the radio to get a lot of our knowledge, decentralized information distribution would occur mostly via word-of-mouth which would travel much slower.  This would've made it much easier for central institutions to dupe society at large with propaganda.  The Internet facilitates this as well, but makes it very easy for people to not buy into that, and makes alternative sources widely available, which makes it very difficult to control the narrative.  The narrative is extraordinarily important in manipulating how people understand reality, which allows for greater control over what those people do, so it's a very common thing for powerful institutions to wrestle this.  The Internet helps to democratize the narrative, and many of us can see now how the narratives from before the Internet's popularity are beginning to crumble, what many would call getting "red pilled."  Void of this, perhaps we can look at North Korea as to what happens when the narrative is under full control by a central authority.

Then there's the total oversaturation of knowledge which allows people to learn just about anything they want with no barriers but presence of an Internet connection and a device that can browse it, and the latter gets cheaper all the time.  It has completely supplanted libraries, as it's cheaper, more convenient, and more widely available; you can even get the same books from the library in pdf form from the Internet, even college textbooks.  You can literally get a college education in your own home, so long as you are disciplined.  This allows for people to self-improve at an incredible rate; just about anything you want to learn about, and much of what you want to learn to do, can be studied on the Internet, often times at no cost.  This raises the value of every human being with Internet access--to varying degrees, anyhow, as some people choose to get more benefit from it than others--which likewise raises our quality of life.  Without the Internet, it'd be a bit more difficult to get this knowledge; libraries would still be around but there's no guarantee that the book you need will be available to you, just due to how libraries work, typically stocking just one, maybe two copies of a single book.  If some book happens to be popular--say, a book on a certain language--you'll find it difficult to get a relevant text, and if you do, someone else will be deprived of it.  Or perhaps the best book on the topic is never around and you're left with an inferior product which may not fulfill your needs adequately.  Not so with the Internet: there's always enough copies for everyone and then some, since a single file is infinitely duplicable.  So no matter what the fad is, you can always learn to your heart's content from the best content available at the time (plus, interactive learning resources often do a better job than just books, e.g. programming courses.)

However, this does not necessarily deprive computers of software; let's say, without the Internet, to get your software fix you'd have to visit the store, or perhaps order a copy of a piece of software to your home.  Here comes the next problem: the high price of knowledge, esp. when paired with licensing and other such limitations.  Rather than a course for learning a given language being free (such as Duolingo, or perhaps just a website), you instead must pay a hefty fee to purchase a piece of software which does the same (let's say, Rosetta Stone), or perhaps void of that you'd pay for a book on the language.  The case without the Internet is always more expensive to the consumer than the case with the Internet, factoring in piracy as well.  Due to the heightened cost of learning, fewer people learn, and learn less often, as it requires more labor on behalf of the consumer to pay for this cost; say, after you shell out 1000$ for the language software, you then want to get a book on programming concepts, and the best book you can find costs 120$, with worse books getting as low as 30$.  Then let's say you want to get another book, say, for anthropology; ultimately you must limit yourself as to what you can or can't learn, and limit yourself as to the quality of your learning material, because every time you pick something up, you'll have to pay a great deal for it, or take a gamble with the library having it in stock.  Ultimately it's inferior to the benefit of the Internet, for without it, while our quality of life may improve, it will at beast improve at a slower rate.

Consider this: without the Internet, software like Photoshop would still exist as something you could buy in the store.  You could still possibly find someone locally who will sell it bootleg, but without that, you'd have to get it legit.  This software is very expensive, however, and the end result would be, Adobe would get just about as much cash as they were getting before, except now that people who can't afford it won't be able to easily pirate it.  So all you wind up with is far fewer people who can use this software competently (since learning resources would also be scarcer), which means bloated prices for these professionals, which means limited availability of such professionals, which means overall less efficient image creation and manipulation with a higher cost for businesses; say, if you wanted to get a business logo, you'd need to shell out a lot more cash for the same level of quality you could get now from any of this site's freelancers.  These costs are always passed on to the consumers, who foot these bills from higher priced goods.  Perhaps we'd still see a lot more traditional artists, but traditional artistry is always more expensive to pull off than digital due to tool costs and increased time to resolve certain problems like changing a color, so the cost would still be higher than it is now.  With the Internet, both the software is freely available (albeit illegally) and the resources to not only learning it, but to master it, are widely available free of charge, thus graphic design is much cheaper with more professionals around.  So more businesses can get graphic services for less, even smaller businesses and startups which otherwise would find it hard to pay for such.  Hooray for piracy!

There are some negatives to having the Internet around, like making it easy to spy on the population, making it easy for unsavory people to connect with others, e.g. pedophiles, but overall I think we're far better off with it than without.  I don't think Bitcoin would be possible without it, nor all the technologies being built due to its existence, like OpenBazaar.  These two things alone would be reason enough to lament the non-existence of the Internet, the freedom these two technologies will allot us is priceless.

i agree

Without internet people would spend time doing other things. Watching tv, reading books, meeting friends at a bar. The way was life before the internet. Life would be at a slower pace.

I would say that there would be no bitcoin, no bitcoin forum and you wouldn't even be able to post this question.

I think we can for sure function without the Internet. The problem is that actually almost all is handled utilizing the Web; there are so many people who work with the Internet. It is a useful and very extensive tool, an enormous source of information, but I consider that without it we would have more free time, and we would enjoy the important things in life not dependent on a computer or Internet cafe.

A society without internet will be isolated from what happen in other countries and would have a lot of communication problems because other communication means like phones are less advance than internet. Also learning would be much difficult as there is no Google to ask