I wonder what other technology is so important in our daily lives, that if taken away, our lives would change drastically. Is the internet the most important communication and innovation for human beings - throughout all of humanity? What other technology can you think of that would cause such havoc if it were to suddenly stop working? Keeping it to from generic technology (such as electricity), can you think of a device or invention that is more important to our daily lives than the internet?
I know I can! But you go first.
What would happen to the world if the internet just stopped working?
Instant communication would be back in the exclusive hands of the telephone and short wave radio, whatever we had in the 60's.
Another technology that the world depends on is anything that uses oil: transportation would crawl, planes wouldn't fly, there would be nothing new made from plastic and other oil-based materials, etc. The world economies would almost all collapse for many years. I'd say that's more a basic need than the internet, so it would be more devastating to lose.
What would happen to the world if the internet just stopped working?
Telecommunications!
Now there's one that would bring Society as we know it to a stand still!
should the internet stop working more wars would break out because then people would have to talk face to face instead of hiding behind their computers,,on the other had things might just work out for the better for much the same reason,,, think about it!
More important than internet? There are plenty! But for most of us, I think refrigerators are more important than internet. I don't mean just the ones at home, but the whole concept of refrigeration, which has completely changed the way we collect and store food and has enabled many of us to obtain produce year-round (and in many parts of the world) that would otherwise be unavailable. And refrigeration is not only used for food storage, anyway. It has many other rather valuable applications, including transporting energy (gas under pressure and super-cooled), medical applications -- both in the making of some medicines as well as for transporting donor organs and blood, and, of course, airconditioning. (Air con is just a form of refrigeration technology, after all.)
I think the lives of many people would change pretty drastically if refrigeration technology did not exist any more.
Disaster. So much of our business and our communications moves over the internet that the world economy would grind to a near halt.
But I don't think that it is the most important innovation. As great as it is, I think that the printing press, telephone, scientific method, steam power, steel electricity and cultivation (just to name a few) are more important. Even the internet is dependent on the computer.
And let's not forget beer.
What鈥檚 going to happen if your refrigerator, stove, and water heater stop working? That would be a disaster far greater than going Internet-less...
