Now imagine if, in the post apocalyptic world, you still had access to every article on Wikipedia.Īll of Wikipedia. And, though you may be able to carry some books with you, you will have to leave most of that knowledge behind every time you leave the library.
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Still, we keep some information offline in books – and most of those books can be found in libraries.īut even if some libraries survived the apocalypse, lets face it – finding information with books is not nearly so quick or easy as online searches. Take away our internet, and we’re probably less prepared than our ancestors of surviving off the grid. But now we live in a golden age of research. My point is that, until recently, things just haven’t been very easy for humans who wanted to do research. Might was right, and “peasants rights” weren’t really a thing. In those times, the aristocracy may well kill you for presuming to become educated enough to read. Our forefathers before that probably lived in a feudal/vassal type of a situation. And before Gutenberg, our ancestors maybe knew a guy who owned a book. It’s easy to forget how recent it was that, in order to research a topic, our ancestors would have to go to a library and sort through often outdated information. The internet has given us instant access to so much useful, even life-saving, information that it is easy to take it for granted. Just face it the internet, and all the good that comes with it, will be gone.Īnd that means the human race will lose a LOT of accurate information. In addition, there will be no one to monitor and repair all those fiber-optic lines of cable. Those servers take loads of electricity to run and cool. If society breaks apart, then no one will have any financial incentive to keep running the databases that comprise what we call the internet.
And when that power grid goes down, then so does the internet.īut even a functioning power grid is no guarantee of internet access. When the modern world faces a true catastrophe, then the power grid is going to go down.
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