Habet homo rationem et murem

Did anyone of you considered having no connection to the Internet, or other media?
I did... and my vision was strange and frightening.
How many of you press the "on" button and then go prepare a breakfast and eat it in front of your computer?
Did you know, that in Poland 41 % of people starts this way their day?
Just 10years earlier the day started with breafast i front of TV, no Tv is replaced by computer.
We, people tend to adore things, that make us do less, e.g. on-line stores with home delivery.
media explorer prof. Wiesław Godzic says, that we can clearly see that people miss their computers. "The have to go home to check what new on-line. They are so attached to their computer that they don't like others to log on into it. They want it for themselves. They consider purchase of new equipment as an important change in their life. Those people are homo internetus.”

The advent of the Internet was like a great earthquake. Traditionalist industrial society had to learn to send e-mails, chat and search the web. Me and my friends are still rocznikami who have Internet and a computer to learn from primary school. But now, children are born with the proverbial 'mouse in his hand. " My 3 year old cousin can enable the Teletubbies in the DVD and knows how to turn on computer and what it is google. Prof Godzic calls them “native users”.
I can’t imagine not check my facebook account or my mailbox. Some people say “Day without Internet is a lost day”.

Internet gives the illusion of reality fully. We live in a culture of cuttings: not listened to entire albums, but some songs stored in MP3 file, trailers (ie movie trailers), which replace the whole (the same species are like the new film), rapid and surprising news in which we click intrigued, photocopies and scans.
But not everything is so sweet and good for my generation. People more likely sit in front of computer than in front of their colleagues. Social life goes on In the Internet, not in real life.
We can't say "stop the Internet bus, I'm leaving" because this is impossible. Our work and life is now based on media. We can't run, but we can be sceptic and have limited trust to it and have it all under control.




How many of you, of us get up the same way everyday? I know I do. I think life without Internet would be boring for us the "homo internetus".I think that some day all of our daily routines will be controlled by a remote.