content: I would agree that it is not a basic human need for survival. I'm 53 years old, sorry to go older American on you for a bit, but we didn't have the I-net and got along fine. We had 3 TV channels, sometimes 4 if we were lucky. What did we do? We spent a lot of time outside running around with our friends. However, I wonder how many of us have contemplated what our lives would be like were we suddenly without the internet? In one of the last interviews Carl Sagan gave before he died he said what concerned him was "we have built a society completely reliant on technology in which very few people really understand how it works." I may be paraphrasing his remarks slightly, I didn't look up the exact quote. But that is the gist of what he said and frankly that concerns me as well.