The Night the Internet Went Out

In class we’ve been talking about google and the internet and how they relate to religions. In religions there are practicers that our very devote and being heavily involved in their church/temple/mosque etc. Lately, I’ve been noticing how devote people are to the internet. People spend hours on the computer everyday; updating facebook and twitter religiously and checking inboxes. I think people don’t understand how much of a hold the internet has on our lives. Last week the internet went out for hours at night at Lawrence and chaos ensued. No one knew what to do with it, my roommates and I just starred at each other, in fact, we ended all going to bed because we had no idea what to do. The next day I thought about what a weird concept that is because not so long ago there was no internet. People had to entertain themselves in other ways, they didn’t have the constant gratification of doing whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted on the internet. It made me think of the article “Is Google Making us Stupid” I don’t necessarily think google is making us stupid, I think it is making us extremely impatient.