The Internet transmission
Have you ever thought about the physical cables that transmit our Internet?
This is the cable network map of our internet. They exist above the ocean and are connected by terrestrial stations to transmit telecommunications signals around the world. The first ones were made in 1850 for telegraph traffic, today, they are optical fiber cables that transport digital data.
We are so used to wireless that it seems that the connection comes from the air, it’s weird to think that are physical objects connecting all of us to the online world.
Cables, people, cables! Imagine if they are suddenly cut, WOW.
How’ll we live?
We are so used to have the internet to figure everything out that it is kind of hard to think about how people lived before it.
In a regular day, you wake up not knowing what time it is because your phone doesn’t work and you don’t have an analogic watch. Then, you brush your teeth, have your breakfast, take a shower, brush your teeth again and you are ready to go.
You are in your car without Wase, but you think you can remember the path to work. That’s ok, but the traffic is ridiculously crazy. No one is being guided for the best way to get somewhere.
Ok, but you get there and there are no e-mails to check with your tasks of the day. Everything that you have was in a cloud, because the company thought it’s safer this way, no one knows what to do and you feel the need to talk to a friend about it, but you have no idea where they are, there are no social media, no phone, nothing connected to nothing.
You go back home knowing that without Internet your work is useless and you have the urge to talk to someone, anyone, but you don’t even know your neighbors!
What are you going to do all day? I’ve no idea, do you?
What is crazy and amazing is that people are starting to value things they do without the internet, like having dinner with a friend without checking your phone or doing hand made limited edition clothing. All excess hides a lack.
Being online everywhere made us feel disconnected.
We are humans, we need a social real life to have a good mental health. No wonder why are so many anxious people these days. Well, why do not start having some offline moments? It’d be good for you, I’m sure and you don’t need to tell anyone that you are in an online detox moment.
