Could you live without the internet?
I couldn't live without the Internet for anything. I've held the view since it first appeared, or at least, since the Web first appeared back in 1994, that the Internet is like a city. And when you're a teenager, especially if you've grown up in the country as I did, when you first arrive at a city the first thing you do is get terribly excited and go to Leicester Square, where the entertainment is, and then you can't help but visit little grubby side streets, where the porn is. And then you're aware that there are museums, and art galleries, and music venues, and libraries, and even schools, and all the things that you have in a city, on the internet. But like any good city the internet's a mass, it's higgledy-piggledy, it's grown up organically. And the internet becomes part of you, and you become a citizen of it. Therefore to leave it makes no sense, it's like saying could you leave the Earth? It's the place we all are now, and it's connected to us no longer just by a computer but by all the little devices we carry around with us. And similarly, the Internet is everywhere, as I say, it's no longer just something you have to log into on the computer, the internet's all around us and it connects us all, and therefore is as good and as bad as humanity is.
