Setting Ideas: Why Would a Society turn away from the Internet?

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

The Internet is the software, the physical infrastructure is the communications networks. Without the software of the Internet, the communications networks are no more dangerous than the electrical infrastructure.

Ah, but the software is not the same as the content, any more than the software of the alphabet and language is the same as the content of the Bill of Rights or the Communist Manifesto or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

The Internet is the software, the physical infrastructure is the communications networks. Without the software of the Internet, the communications networks are no more dangerous than the electrical infrastructure.

Which software are you talking about? The communications networks are incapable of functioning without software.