Old World cluttered with www.com signs

suddenly I find old barns and country estates overgrown with ivy and adorned with rusty old gates have www.com signs everywhere - is there no escape from the internet? no longer can I escape.perhaps i should stop fighting the new revolution and accept technology is here to stay

 

No, there's not. Actually, this is my first computer, which I got at the end of last year. At the time, I felt like I was just about the last person in the country that wasn't on the net. Now I meet people all the time that aren't on the internet, so I feel like a real sophisticate. The internet, however, is the wave of the future, and you can either ride the wave or live in a cave. That's pretty much the way I see it.

 

You should be pleased, RG. The net provides a mailbox that needs no paper. That saves trees and helps the ivy to continue growing over the rusty old gate.

 

Problem is that the worldwide consumption of electricity went up by 40% in the last decade due to an increase in network integrated technology, and the use of rechargeable batteries for mobile technology that need a powerpack in
the mains supply. Theres no way of compensating on trees without adding
more carbons. Always on broadband - the biggest way to consume more !!!!
As we type - each keystroke is another 10cm of ice sheet melted

 

Maybe the MCH is the way of the future (Micro Compact Home) - it runs off solar power,has built in internet connections and can be transported/sited anywhere

http://www.microcompacthome.com/

 

I don't believe that. Do you have a source?

 

dotcoms and whirlywides...
romance in the future:

2 people make eyes at each other for exactly 3.5 seconds (in between furious cell-phoning and blackberrying) exchange cell numbers and www addresses -
at which point everything that continues from there is the manipulation of media.

In developing nations - people actually still write letters. A charming occupation.

Apparently in England, around the time of the Bronte sisters, postal delivery in London happened about 6 times a day. (this was pre-telephone of course.)
People could send notes back and forth all day long.

I seriously doubt computers generate less paper than was consumed prior to their proliferation.

The "wave of the future" might more resemble a tsunami, than we can possibly imagine.

As a medium, the net sort of resembles commercial television - in a way.
It can be a great research tool, or endless infotainment - and just about everything in between.

I've noticed in the press, and many recent publications - a marked increase in typos and out of context wording (spell check does not catch a lot of these errors.)
Proof reading can make one climb the walls...but it used to be a pretty standard literary skill.
For all the electronic "out of body" communication we do - there's no communication like a sunny smile from a perfect stranger, as far as I'm concerned.

 

It was a forceful overstatement to make a point that is essentially true - its true
Consumption of electricity in the developed world is up 40% in a decade
and that means global warming - the facts are open to debate on what it means in real terms and I accept you point its not an accurate figure =
but it is a truthful picture to some degree or another