One man's experience through a year lived without usage of the internet.
[QUOTE]I thought the internet might be an unnatural state for us humans, or at least for me. Maybe I was too ADD to handle it, or too impulsive to restrain my usage. I'd used the internet constantly since I was twelve, and as my livelihood since I was fourteen. I'd gone from paperboy, to web designer, to technology writer in under a decade. I didn't know myself apart from a sense of ubiquitous connection and endless information. I wondered what else there was to life. "Real life," perhaps, was waiting for me on the other side of the web browser.
My plan was to quit my job, move home with my parents, read books, write books, and wallow in my spare time. In one glorious gesture I'd outdo all quarter-life crises to come before me. I'd find the real Paul, far away from all the noise, and become a better me.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]I was wrong.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet"]http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet[/URL]
The full article is an interesting read.
Sounds like something that would happen to me, or any of us FPers if we tried to do what the guy did.
It's something I don't think we can escape.
The moment actual virtual reality/immortality is created none of us will refuse that kind of offer.
Not even myself. I could plan out my entire life, and still pay millions just to enter a fictional, yet fantastical world of my choosing.
It's something I both dread and look forward to.
Reading this, and watching that little video, makes me feel like I want to try this out myself and see what it would do to me.
I'd probably just cave in and hook it all back up within a month, though.
Am I the only one who finds this a tad over dramatic? He's writing about it as if he's done a greater service to mankind by living without the utmost necessities of life, when really all he's without is access to the web.
[QUOTE=Niko_38;40511671]Am I the only one who finds this a tad over dramatic? He's writing about it as if he's done a greater service to mankind by living without the utmost necessities of life, when really all he's without is access to the web.[/QUOTE]
the entire point of the article is that that's basically what he originally thought he felt like (although not that egotistic), and it turned out he was wrong when he got out of that mindset
did you even read or just skim
[QUOTE=Doomish;40511726]the entire point of the article is that that's what he originally thought he felt like, and it turned out he was wrong
did you even read or just skim[/QUOTE]
I don't argue that's what he was getting to, just that there was a lot of drama in there that I really don't feel has any need in journalism. Or whatever that was.
[QUOTE]My favorite place is the couch. I prop my feet up on the coffee table, play a video game, and listen to an audiobook. I pick a mindless game, like Borderlands 2 or Skate 3, and absently thumb the sticks through the game-world while my mind rests on the audiobook, or maybe just on nothing.[/QUOTE]
Well there's the problem. He stopped usage of what is both a time waster and potentially a device that can make you more productive and replaced it with what is exclusively a time waster.
[QUOTE=Hidole555;40511786]Well there's the problem. He stopped usage of what is both a time waster and potentially a device that can make you more productive and replaced it with what is exclusively a time waster.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but he's looking at why that was. The article talks about the novelty wearing off and how the very behavior you referenced signifies that it's not connection to the internet that's the problem but some deeper issue or attribute that needs to be looked at and worked on
Hah. I always knew the internet was better than life.
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