Recently there was a South Park episode called "Over Logging" where they wake up to find no internet. Panic ensues and the rest of the episode plays out like an end-of-the-world movie. My wife and I both saw ourselves in those characters.
Contact with friends and family, not to mention work, is mostly through email. Being able to go to a keyboard and jot a note or reminder prevents things from falling through the cracks. If I want to know the temperature or the weather forecast there's an internet connected applet on my desktop that tells me at a glance. I can check the bank account to see if that check I wrote to the doctor cleared? I can look at Fandango to find out what's playing at the movies?
Yup, if I had a dial-up connection I could do all the above but I did, and I didn't. That is I can remember having dial-up service and I didn't use the web for these things. It was too inconvenient.
Because of smartphones pushed on us by employers we take it a step further. New email causes my phone to vibrate and, if we're in the car talking about a movie and question who that actor was then we use the phone's browser to look on IMDB.
Always on internet gives me access to broad knowledge and keeps me better informed and organized. I've paid for the service for 10 years and find it very valuable.
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