A World With No Phone and Internet — Can You Imagine It?
What if I tell you that there will be no phone and internet from tomorrow? Like in Rajini’s movie, Enthiran 2.0 where all of a sudden, the phones start vanishing.
Would you feel stranded? Do you think you can survive like in our parent’s generation?
Can you imagine living in a world with ‘no phone and internet’? I can hear your mind silently whispering that it is a big NO.
Quickly, cease your thoughts for a moment and let us zoom out a bit. I know, your mind would have begun rewinding how phone and internet are an integral part of you.
The first thing that most of us usually look out for as soon as we wake up would be the mobile phone. The next moment we squander into all the social media applications to check for updates, stories, and messages like a student grabbing the books to read hurriedly before entering the exam hall. We even forget our core activities to start the day and plunge ourselves into the Internet.
I am pretty sure that there would be exceptions like me. Gosh, not the way you just thought but a little worse than that, Haha. I extend my hand searching for my smartphone while I am half awake, and begin surfing with one eye open. Yeah, you read it right. I need my phone even before I am completely awake.
‘Phone and Internet’ has also been added to the essentials along with food. Its importance has risen as many of us know that survival without these will be a little difficult these days.
CNBC reports state that currently, 51 percent of the global population use phones along with the Internet. The number can surge up to 72.6 percent, which contributes to 3.7 billion of the world population.
I decided to write this article from two different aspects when all of a sudden, we wake up in a world without Phone and Internet.
“The positive and negative perspectives”
I have crafted this article, keeping in mind the most crucial points that compel to return to the method followed in the olden times.
- Communicating With People
With smartphones and the internet, you can be available 24/7 to your near and dear ones. If you are staying distant from your home, you could talk to your family and friends when you feel like it. In the case of emergencies, the phone assists you to communicate with the doctor for help. I have heard a lot of people say I am only a phone call away. It kind of feels that you are not alone anymore. You must have also felt connected hearing it.
However, with the evolution of the phone and the Internet, we have overlooked interacting with the people around us. Without these, in play, you will be pushed to the habit of speaking face to face. Contrastly, you will also have to wait to hear from a distant one. Writing letters would replace the message in Whatsapp, and dialing would turn out to be in the landlines which most of you would have forgotten.
2. Impact on Businesses and Online Shopping
Businesses that have been available decades ago also started slowing bringing, their presence online. What will happen to those when suddenly there is no internet? How will you respond when one day you need to step outside to buy things?
We have been buying online for years that it has made us lethargic to walk outside to buy our daily essentials. With online shopping being extinct, it would become mandatory to visit the local shops that you never knew existed.
The only group benefited will be the local merchants. Our government keeps stressing to give business to local brands, but I believe that this might happen only if the international brands are not available in town.
3. Entertainment Would Go for a Toss
Youtube, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, and a few others in this list are the prime source that exuberates you. Can you imagine a life without it? Of course, I can’t.
Listening to music would shift from youtube to the radio. The radio was most dependable during age-old days, but one who is used to a few music applications would find it difficult to tune a station. Similarly, television and movie theatres would the only choice without the phone and the internet.
4. Access to Information
The information that comes handy at our fingertips with the help of the internet now has to be searched in the pile of books at the library. It might be available but you won’t get it as easily as it is now.
There are no second thoughts about the evolution of the ‘Phone and Internet’. Everything has a positive and negative side to it. We can control aspects like making use of the boon in the right away and avoiding uninvited trouble through the internet. When the negative side of it is in our control, living in a world with the phone and the internet is definitely truly a bliss.
