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By Steve Spalding August 14th, 2008
Under: Polls, Questions
Last week Ophelia posed a picture of a world in which the Internet didn’t exist, what I want to know is whether this is a world that you could actually live in. Many of us have jobs that are bolstered by the web, and a many more of us have jobs that could not exist without it.
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Absolutely NO!
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Nope! I wouldn't have a job. Yikes!
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Yes, but it wouldn't called "life" ...I'd just exist.
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Yea, that's a great point. I wonder how many jobs Social Media has created. Anyone have any stats?
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I'm with Daynah - and I really don't want to go back to civil engineering!
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I'd also have no job, although I won't work in social media.
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I'd have no hobby.
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I'd have a job, but I wouldn't much like it! The card catalog would be back on cards, and all the info would be locked in silos! BORING! And, we'd just have to reinvent the internet all over again....
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That's like asking if I could live without a telephone or electricity or running water. The answer is: yes, but not happily.
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no
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back to buying tons of CD-ROMs. Cinemania FTW
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I'd have to learn how to drag and drop physical mail.
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