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You might be starting with the wrong question. You are assuming internet access is a good thing and that extending its supply will be best for everyone. Consid
by hairytrog 7y ago
You might be starting with the wrong question. You are assuming internet access is a good thing and that extending its supply will be best for everyone.
Consider the following:
- the internet makes people dumber (low attention spans, group think, advertising driven content, addictive behaviors promoted, etc)
- the internet makes us consumers instead of creators
- the internet makes people depressed and anxious
- the internet causes around 5% of global GHG emissions
- internet enhances ability for total monitoring and censoring of speech
- internet creates centralized global tech monopolies on information flow and data
- extensive global networks put society at increased risk of total collapse
What are the benefits and do they really outweigh the negatives? Can the benefits be accomplished through other means? Just make sure you're comfortable with possibly making people's lives worse.
- dmix 7y agoThe mechanical knitting machine will take all of our jobs and we'll be unemployed. Lets break the machines in protest and go back to handlooms!
- jibla 7y agoDo you think we, those who are connected, should give up our internet connections? If not should we leave the rest of the world's population without it?
- hairytrog 7y agoNo. I'm addicted.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoWhat are the benefits The LGBTQ crowd is benefiting tremendously from online dating. People with weird health issues are benefiting tremendously from the ability to do research and safely talk to others with their condition, something that would be difficult or impossible to arrange and potentially quite dangerous to do in person due to cross contamination issues. I'm not going to sit here and try to point-by-point rebut your points, but, man, what a gloomy, glass-half-empty point of view. There is zero attempt at all to be even-handed about it.