What a naive perspective. Who, seriously, these days develops in a vacuum, referring to printed reference matter? Software development these days is a series of

What a naive perspective. Who, seriously, these days develops in a vacuum, referring to printed reference matter? Software development these days is a series of google trips to the likes of stack overflow and others. If we lived in an 80's world still, where the environment was still in its foundational stage then this might be a productivity idea, but in this era development is hybridization of many foundational technologies. The stuff of development has moved up the abstraction ladder and that requires constantly refereeing to constantly changing materials (the Internet) If some like to be productive without the web then fine, but let's not pretend this applies to others. If I wanted to write the next great American novel maybe I should get a wifi free cabin the woods, but for my day to day life, no thank you - I'll take wifi anyway, the faster the better.