*Blink*Wouldn't a 12 year old be the one saying that the internet is the only form of communication?
Anyway, My point to all is not that I don't think the internet isnt the BEST way of doing it, I think its replaceable. I mean it only REALLY became publicly widespread in the 90s and it really sucked back then. The same can be said for automobiles. People got as far as they did with horses, wagons, bikes and boats. Same could be said for the internet.
LOL so because it's recent it can be replaced? Planes [modern planes, mind you, the jet-engine ones] and Communicaion Satellites aren't exactly old either, think we could live without them, too?
Don't fucking give me that BS explanation. Just because you're used to it now doesn't mean it's just another convenience you can ever-so-casually declare as replaceable.
And isn't the point of the internet is that it's growing? So basically, it's ok to just cut off the exponential growth of the internet because some people think they're entitled to it? What kind of fucked up thinking is that?
You're saying a technology less than a quarter of a century old is replaceable because... um... what was your reason again? Because it's new and it sucked before?
Wow. Quit the internet, please. FFS
The world turned just fine without all that stuff... and being closely involved with the internet since the very explosion of the Web itself... I sincerely *know* that just because there would be a lot of casualties (both literally and figuratively speaking) without those things you mention, it doesn't mean that technology is something that has eliminated mankind's capability to operate on the lesser pre-existing forms.
In fact--
It would be easier in the present day to communicate without the internet because world languages have been homogenizing over the past 100 and especially 30-50 years, meaning that there are fewer spoken/written languages present in the human race now than before the instant communication forms that have been available since before you were even conceived.
If merely disintegrating the internet was on the table, but we still had (LANDLINE) phones and (NON-JET) transportation, it would be a major hurdle only for the FIRST WORLD population to adjust (the wealthy would be able to afford a massive spike in postage & phone costs, but then there would be a massive demand for postal and phone employees to balance THAT out..)
but the communication tool, though seen as integral to turning the moment-to-moment events of people of the "entire world", isn't even accessible to (or used by) most of it even at this time ANYWAY. for second and third-worlders, they would return to forms they used before mainstream access to the internet even more easily.