Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "1994: Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive" video.

  1. Objectively it has had a terrible effect on humanity.
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  2. I'd like to travel back and leave a note for myself to buy a thousand bitcoins around 2010.
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  3. My phone is literally my Internet modem. I use mobile hot-spot because I'm in a rural area with crappy land lines. 25meg download on a mobile phone in the middle of nowhere. Just crazy how far things have come.
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  4.  @nyx9875  Well I am old enough to have been an adult before the internet was a thing. So yeah... I know. Cars really haven't warped human psychology in anywhere near the same extent that the internet has.
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  5.  @horiabodeanu7641  - It has shortened our attention spans. - It has introduced deranging non-stop political radicalisation to the masses. - It has ruined dating and courtship. - It has given authorities immense power to monitor and condition our behaviour. Far from being a source of information, we have now reached a point where you can no longer tell what is even real, be it a video, image or a news report. Nothing on the internet can be trusted and unlike previous methods of propaganda, there is very little effort and zero consequence for simply making up complete lies online. A central site like Wikipedia that 90% of people use as their primary source of facts can be re-written in seconds and is aggressively gatekept by a small elite group of ideologues in California. Similar situation with other hugely influential social media sites. We have a long way to go and perhaps it will turn out to be a boon to humanity, but for the meantime my opinion is that the internet is doing massive damage to our society and our humanity and poses a short term existential threat.
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  6. Yep. I use the very phone I'm typing on now as my Internet (via the hotspot function) because it has faster bandwidth than my land-line.
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  7. Yes my kids use them. Not 'their own' but in some lessons they dish them out as learning tools. They're cheap androids of course, although the autistic kid gets an ipad air. Not a bad idea since that's the world they are growing up in.
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  8. I went straight the that website too around 1996... Clicked on an image of Emma Bunton using my 28k modem. Then got bored waiting. I should check to see if its downloaded yet.
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  9.  @Ceu.Noturno  You're kind of right. Atomic science gave us Hiroshima and now we have the prospect of near infinite energy if we use it wisely. The internet is in the early stages of that story arc. It hasn't got to the mass death stage yet, but after the truly dystopian ordeal it will almost certainly put us through as inevitably states realise it's full potential for control and subjugation, I think we will emerge enlightened in the further future.
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  10. It's a poisoned chalice. Worst thing that ever happened to the Western world.
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  11. Get that little political jab in eh Kate? Good old progressive Bill Clinton but hiss booo the Tories and "market forces". The BBC never change.
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