well Aryan, The affect on our personal lives, affect on business, affect on education and affect on technology. From a personal angle we could say that the loss of the Internet would isolate people as it is used to provide easy, cheap communication that is not limited by geographical distance. In business terms, the Internet is a valuable tool for marketing and sales and the loss of this technology would result in rethinking future marketing strategies to more conventional means (such as print media and television marketing). Education would probably be the most significantly affected, with online courses being removed and therefore inaccessible to students. In addition to this example, self-education would become much harder to undertake if the Internet was unavailable, for instance students studying at tertiary institutions would be unable to access the vast amount of reading and information that the Internet provides. Technology is often driven by the Internet, especially communication technology. If the Internet were unavailable, progress in technological fields would most likely become stagnant, along with open-source development; which can rely heavily on the communication opportunities that the Internet provides.
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10:48 AM on June 26, 2008