Imagine there is no YT, no Twitter/X, no Facebook, no Netflix, no Amazon, no Apple, no Google to to search the Web, no chatGPT. Imagine there is no TikTok either (even though it’s not US). Just imagine there is no ‘giant’ tech from anywhere owning any app or service that millions if not billions of people are willing to use.
A world without any of those giant (US) tech companies and services that many of us take for granted.
In that world, what would you use the Internet for? How would you use it? And how much time do you think you would spend online, compared to now?
(my own answer in the comments)
It’s one of the thing I would like to know: how many of us have had a taste of the old web and how many of the younger people have no idea anon corporate(US)-owned Web was even a thing.
Like I said in my answer, ‘my’ Web wouldn’t change much either: blogs and emails wouldn’t go away, just less blog/emails to and from the US, probably ;)
This is one of my biggest beefs. There’s been a whole generation that have grown up with the media. They believe they need it, not just convenience but need. They are happy to pay through the nose and trade their privacy.
Trying to get my kids to look beyond that and look at alternate ways of consuming digital content…and of course consider what they consume. It’s still hard they are like your crazy this stuff is to hard just DL ### app. I sound like my own dad.