No internet in Egypt! Was thinking about this. What if this happens all over the world!? How much would this affect our day-to-day lives? I eat, sleep and breathe internet. I’m on the internet almost all the time. If not on my macbook, on my iPhone. There’s nothing as addictive as internet. If I’m totally left alone in an island and if I can ask for one thing that would be access to internet. The most important things that consume our time today are television, internet and mobile phones. For me internet is like 90% of these three combined.

But then, if this Egypt thing happens to India, I just wonder what would happen. We’re left just with television and internet-less mobile phones. Sure that’s gonna trigger a lot of suicides but what else would happen. Facebook, twitter and blogging will stop. People stop knowing who’s going out with who. The great stage for the self-important people like me will be gone. We won’t be able to impress people that we don’t know. We can’t feel like celebrities. We can’t act like a know-all sitting behind the computer having wikipedia open in one tab.  We might have to engage with real people. We might have to speak to them, spammers and dullheads included. We won’t be able to right-click on them and hit ‘block user’.

No internet means no emails too! The telephone lines will be jammed anyway. Good old post cards might be back in fashion. I might have read more than the sports columns in newspapers. I can’t afford to get tired with my iPhone games and apps. No more online gaming. We need to keep playing the dumb AI – which either cheats you or allows you to batter it.

More than anything, I’ll find a new reason for not blogging regularly.