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Have you ever stopped to think about how much time you spend in front of an electronic display?

It seems like so many things are conveyed to us through electronic media and I can't help but wonder in what ways our lives would be different with the absence of them.

How do you think your life would be different if you didn't have the internet, or television?

I probably wouldn't know how to poop like a champ

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Mafoo

id have a lot more time out in the fresh air i presume.

i spend most of my day in front of my computer

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PLUR
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return

The seizureboi

I would probably like I used to when I was little and my parents wouldn't let me use electronics at night. I had/have insomnia, so that would be A LOT of reading.

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José

haha word. it's all or none for me pretty much.

stateofkane

I would adapt somehow, but it wouldn't be pretty. The world really is a boring uneventful place.

John F. Kerry

i always say this shit,
but just imagine how much more this is true for the developing world.


people in many countries around the world can go on a computer screen and learn college material, learn to play an instrument, learn about another country, etcetc etc.... then they go back out into the desert and go home to their unairconditioned mud huts and dream of their hour at the internet cafe...

20 years ago those people had no hope of a future because the chances of turning uzefuckistan into america in their lifetime was hopeless...along comes a little box that asians can make for a few hundred bucks that can basically enrich your life in millions or billions of ways for little more than the cost of electricity....

drop some of these boxes into poor countries and suddenly the people living in squalor have access to first rate media and educational oppourtunities.... result, even poor people whos living standards by western definitions "sucked" 20 years ago now have way more options for education, entertainment, and connection , and for far less money than they could have ever hoped but for the invention of a "do anything box thats quite cheap"

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Bearsy

A lot more books.
And I wouldn't be so fat.

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bizong

buy a god damn book.

verklingen

a book is a medium too. when writing started to be used for things other than keeping track of goods and trade (such as writing down epics that were until then passed verbally from generation to generation), thinkers of the time saw it as a menace to intelligence and believed it would dull peoples' minds. intelligence was linked to memory in a very direct sense, and it was thought that reading would create a generation of lazy memories.

of course, being able to read exposes one to many more thoughts, concepts and ideas than would be possible to hear a poet speak, all of which were turned from their former transience into permanence: able to be re-read, shared and passed on. the advantages are practically limitless, and what is electronic media but another evolution of this same concept?

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