Quote Originally Posted by ny biker View Post
I live alone. My nearest family is 300 miles away. Without electronics I would not have sufficient contact with my family.

I would also not have a job, since I'm a software developer who works on internet applications.

Ditto this except that my family is 3000 miles away. Plus, if it hadn't been for the internet, my goat would have died during child birth, I never would have met my husband, I'd have no job (I'm an EE), my husband would have no job (computer security), we wouldn't have found the last three houses we owned and all of my real life local friends and I would not have met.

That said, if it all went away, I'd be totally fine with it. I don't need TV, I only listen to the radio or music when I drive, I am never on the phone unless it's for work or with family, I don't play video games, I don't have a 'smart phone' (but everyone should keep buying them, please!) and we are carefully building up our real life home library with the information we need so that we can be less reliant on the internet in the future.