Aug 31, 2020
What if there was no Internet?
A long time ago, when humans had the urge to communicate with each other, they would commute for miles to go to the other person’s dwelling (since we are talking about old age, why not use age-appropriate terms?). Then came the landlines and our lives were still calm, as we only could talk when we were at home, or near any PCO (those little cubicles with phone facility, you remember now?) However, advancing technology gave us the world’s greatest gift, ‘Cellular phones’. These were still less messy instruments used for communication. You could only phone and talk for a short amount of time, as the charge per minute was outrageous! So, you phoned only when it was an urgency.
I come across this article and I find it interesting. The article is a little out dated but I guess you can get the idea of not having an internet. My guess is that if the internet and cell phones would go down worldwide for many days there would be so many “Panic Attacks” the world would not have enough medicine to cover it.
