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Originally Posted by bryantm3
i think everything is worse cos of the internet. seriously, pretty much every unprecedented bad thing that's happened over the last 10 years you could link to the internet.
the only good thing i like in the internet is the ability to communicate so quickly, first through usenet in the 70s/80s, message boards in the mid 90s, IM in the early 2000s and now we've got myspace and things like that. but that has serious downsides to it- have you noticed how al qaeda has increased in size so much since around 1999 when the internet started getting really popular? regular people are able to communicate through the internet en masse mostly undetected; but so are terrorists, paedophiles, pornographers, serial killers, and certain species of apes.
that being said, it would be impossible to close the internet, just as it's impossible to prevent all those people from communicating with it to do awful things.
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there is no way to say that the internet has hurt the music industry. perhaps there are those that only steal music but it has made others purchase so much more. i cant begin to count all the late nights of online drunken album purchases at this point. from amazon, itunes, other online record shops, and even older vinyls on ebay. i didn't even consider ever getting vinyls until they became so easily available online. i know quite a few people who have experienced the same sort of renewed interest.
it gives you such a wide variety that you will find things you want to buy you never would have found, even if you're living in a major city. and then as stated earlier, the people in bumblefuck nebraska (no offense nebraska people) would just be in trouble if they were interested in different types of music.
certainly you are bombarded with shit at so many turns, but that's the nature of a global forum. if you have everyone in the world putting they're thoughts and ideas in a single place you are bound to have as many if not more terrible ideas. they were always there,but now everyone can see/hear them. it goes back to the old saying "opinions (we can substitute ideas in there as well) are like assholes. everyone has one. most of them stink."
i do agree with sir elton to a degree. people do need to get out there more. people are living in their own little cocoon of computers, cell phones, atms, automated phone services, etc. you see people walking around towns and city streets and it seems like every other person has little white headphones sticking out of their ears paying almost no attention to anyone around them or even traffic (the number of teenagers and 20 somethings ive almost hit because they were listening to their ipod and step right out in front of me in ridiculous.) and now you have people even watching movies while walking around. and im not saying that these devices are inherently bad, but people do seem to be isolating themselves far too much with them.
it's unfair, to say the least, to blame all the worlds problems on the internet. perhaps a more fair statement to make would be that many (though not all) of the unprecedented bad things that occur in the world are a result of advancement in technologies and then the abuse or our own naivety of that technology.
the internet is like the walmart in southpark. though i guess it was actually destroyed wasnt it. arent the name servers for the whole of internet in only six locations though? or am i completely wrong on that? if you knocked out all six that would effectively shut the thing down for a time at least.