Technology is everywhere and it has become part of everyday life for the vast majority of us. From the mobile phone alarm waking us in the morning to watching Netflix until we fall asleep at night and all the rest in between.
A cyber free world is still possible if you are living in the countryside off the land and paying your bills at the local village post office (if you’ve still got one!). The internet and mobile phones are not deemed necessary or possibly seen as a bloody nuisance. Online bargains and the latest movies have no meaning to you because you just don’t care, you are happy without all that nonsense, then fair enough.
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Scenario
No emails from your utility companies informing you of changes (price increases), no updates about your hospital appointment being cancelled again or changes in bin collection days. No texts to tell you your teas ready or the local shop has ran out of Carlsberg again, do you want something else. A reminder to pick up a bottle of milk on the way home or you are stuck in traffic and your going to be late.
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So prices go up, I can cope. I’ve drove 25 miles to the hospital to find out the appointment has been changed, no bother. I miss a bin collection this week, it’ll wait till next week. The tea will stay warm in the oven till I get back and I’ll have whatever lager she brings home, I can adapt. I’ll milk one of the cows it won’t take long, so your home late, no harm done. Guess how many people think like that nobody I know!
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Summary
So yes it possible to live in a cyber free bubble but what an absolute pain that would be. These are just some practical examples of how difficult life would be, I’m sure you could think of many more.
Reality
Todays world is so engrossed in tech, so ingrained in our psyche that we don’t even think about it as a ‘thing’ it’s just there. All around us everywhere we go. A cyber free life for the vast majority of us is unthinkable, the kind of thing that nightmares are made of.
Shouts of ‘the internet has gone down again’, oh my god! What are we going to do! I have to have my wi-fi it has to work now! Is that an exaggerated scenario, no it isn’t – these expressions of horror are commonplace in the suburbs of England these days. Although it pains me to say it but I might be one of the ones doing the shouting.
Final Thoughts
A cyber free bubble has become an unrealistic reality, an absurd possibility, a freaky world of lost souls. Yet in the days of no internet, no mobile phones the world still turned, jobs were done and people were happy.
