J.R. wrote:
Precious Roy wrote:The internet would then turn into more of a communications device like old telephones. You would use the internet to communicate with your friends without opening yourself up to strangers through the world wide web.
How exactly would people communicate with anyone they wanted, without being accessible to strangers, i.e. the government? That was never the case with telephones.
Any form of communication is susceptible to interception. The issue in my post-internet apocalypse world is whether you could communicate digitally without having your system infected by viruses. My theory is that people would be able to divorce data storage from communication by a breakthrough in data storage. You would get your digital data directly from a vendor, like buying a magazine off a rack and not over the WWW. That would then enable you to use the web solely for communicating. In other words, your data (movies, music, files, etc) would be stored on a separate system from your communications and would be acquired without using the web. A digital quarantine of sorts.