| A World Without Internet
I was talking about this subject with some friends the other day. We all remember hearing our parents tell us as kids "When I was your age, I didn't have......" and we just rolled our eyes and said "Yeah, right!".
Well now as most of us enter the age where we are becoming parents, we're most likely going to use that line (or maybe some of us already are). Anyway, the direct example I was thinking about was the internet. Our kids will grow up with Instant Messanger, Google, discussion forums, and many more things that come directly from the World Wide Web.
Remember things like Libraries, ACTUAL encyclopedias, going outside in the summer and actually playing baseball with your friends and staying outside until dusk when your parents told you to come back in? Or looking up movie times in the newspaper on a Saturday afternoon, rather than logging on your computer or cell phone?
Obviously the internet has made our lives easier and more convinent in many ways, but in others it really slows us down and makes us lazier. What do you think life would be for us without the internet now? Studies have shown that kids becoming more obese are a direct relation to things such as the internet, as kids would rather sit on a chair all day than go outside and play. Do you think that, as time continues on, we will see more negative effects from the internet? |