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I have to assume that the supply chain, banking, food, power grids, shipping, medicine, trains, broadcasting (radio and all forms of TV), touring groups, restaurants, etc. can adapt easily and survive, so that the physical aspects of life are intact, other than all computers becoming useless. Yes, this MUST be assumed. In real life, as things are, an instantaneous loss of all internet functions would have horrific effects on most of the things we humans depend on for SURVIVAL. That would mean that "not being able to get on the internet" for us, would be the LEAST of our worries.
So, suppose for some reason all internet access was removed from MY life forever. Therefore all these other functions can still exist because I'd be the ONLY one who has lost all internet forever. I would be saddened that people I've come to care about would suddenly become "lost in action" with no known way to contact them, and I WILL SAY that it would certainly put me out of business quickly! (The latter has nothing to do with any of the functions in the first paragraph, but the fact that without internet my business would have very little exposure, and I would lose ALL the best research tools that help me price stuff.)
I would miss YouTube intensely, and the ability to effectively have [portions of] the contents of all libraries in the world at my fingertips, and so much more. It would DEFINITELY HURT. If that happened, I would probably do more WALKING/HIKING, reading some of those books "I was supposed to read someday," have more phone conversations and visits - maybe even have time to CONSIDER a relationship. It wouldn't change who-and-what I am. I've always said that if everything I do in my current life was stripped away, I could easily "replace" it with a second lifetime's worth of activities...and it's even possible I could go as far as five layers deep.
No, maybe not five layers, because parts of those lower layers - such as "more YouTube time" - would also be stripped away.
So, suppose for some reason all internet access was removed from MY life forever. Therefore all these other functions can still exist because I'd be the ONLY one who has lost all internet forever. I would be saddened that people I've come to care about would suddenly become "lost in action" with no known way to contact them, and I WILL SAY that it would certainly put me out of business quickly! (The latter has nothing to do with any of the functions in the first paragraph, but the fact that without internet my business would have very little exposure, and I would lose ALL the best research tools that help me price stuff.)
I would miss YouTube intensely, and the ability to effectively have [portions of] the contents of all libraries in the world at my fingertips, and so much more. It would DEFINITELY HURT. If that happened, I would probably do more WALKING/HIKING, reading some of those books "I was supposed to read someday," have more phone conversations and visits - maybe even have time to CONSIDER a relationship. It wouldn't change who-and-what I am. I've always said that if everything I do in my current life was stripped away, I could easily "replace" it with a second lifetime's worth of activities...and it's even possible I could go as far as five layers deep.
No, maybe not five layers, because parts of those lower layers - such as "more YouTube time" - would also be stripped away.
