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> The internet is arguably the most important invention in human history and probably the most important utility we have. Are you ready to forego your water an

• ajmurmann 9y ago
  Yes that's what I said and I stand by it. It would be incredibly inconvenient to lose water or sewer. I would have to walk down to the creek multiple times a day, purify the water, etc. Showers would be a thing of the past. I'd have to have a septic which comes with it's own issues. However, without Internet access I cannot work, I would have a much harder time acquiring new knowledge. If the entire Internet were gone for everybody that would be a huge killer for much of our economy, but since we would have to deal with it collectively infrastructure to get stuff done without it would likely come back. However, if it was just me who had no Internet that would be a massive disaster for myself. Without Internet I would immediately be left behind.
  • dozzie 9y ago
    Oh, I see. You just don't underestand how absolutely vital water is to keep our civilization running. No water or sewer installations wouldn't just mean you have to endure some inconveniences. It would mean hygienic catastrophe, with all the diseases eradicated just by making everybody wash their hands come back. And no easy access to water would literally kill almost all industry. Industry nowadays consumes twice as much water as households, mind you. Take that away and you don't have no production of anything at all. (Agriculture takes twice as industry and households combined, but I'm not sure if I can pull it under the same argument here.) On the other hand, if we make internet disappear, we would go to where we were just twenty years ago, thirty at best. Most of the information produced and processed through internet is only useful for working with internet, so it's not as big deal as you want to paint it. > However, without Internet access I cannot work, I would have a much harder time acquiring new knowledge. You'd just land in some other industry. And new knowledge you would just get from somebody else. People didn't magically become more knowledgable once internet became common. It's not like an average person today knows more than average person three decades ago (and it seems it's actually the opposite). > If the entire Internet were gone for everybody that would be a huge killer for much of our economy, For our industry, IT+web, not economy. For economy it would be a big inconvenience, because IT is so big nowadays, but nothing more. Lack of water, on the other hand, would make impossible most of the production processes, including agricultural chemistry.