[LINK] Affordable Internet in Australia for low-income families ? Never happen...

[jim birch]

david.boxall wrote:


> So what do we need?
>
> Water, food, shelter, clothing. There are probably thousands of basics
> more important than Internet access. Hell, I know people who can't
> afford transport or a 'phone and I'd put those ahead of the Internet.
>

Perhaps, but...  While you can survive with food, shelter and clothing, you
can't really participate in the medium that for most young people dominates
life.  The urge to communicate yourself is driven by extremely powerful
biological forces; it is underlies sex/procreation and power for social
animals like us.  Facebook was originally designed as a way of getting laid
(and it continues so.)

This may not apply to older people who have lived using other means of
communication, and/or are no longer competing in the power and partner
selection arena.

- Jim