What’s the internet worth to you?

How much would you have to be paid to give up the internet forever?

How much do you pay to use it?

The answer to the first question is likely to be a very big number, the answer to the second not very much.

To understand why the price we pay for the internet is so much less than how we value it, watch this:

Hat tip: SOLO Passion

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2 Responses to What’s the internet worth to you?

  1. Andrei's avatar Andrei says:
    02/08/2011 at 4:26 pm

    Didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know already but hey some people are really slow learners and still haven’t seen the blindingly obvious.

    Incidentally I had a brick cell phone, paid for by my boss not me and apart from anything else its battery life was about two hours and it took more than 12 hours to charge – what a dog.

    I also had a laser disk machine and that was a technology that didn’t take off sigh

    And my first DVD player cost over $2000 (you’d think I’d have been shy after the laser disk fiasco but no).

    I was what they used to call an “early adopter”.

    I’ve grown beyond that these days though – a cell phone that takes visdeos and plays music just passes me by when all it gets used for is for my little T to let me know she needs me to pick her up from …..
    Now!

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  2. fredinthegrass's avatar fredinthegrass says:
    03/08/2011 at 8:52 am

    Were you really THAT rich, Andrei? Wow!!
    Interesting to have reinforced what “I already knew” though.
    I wonder what Robert’s take on this is?!

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