There's No Such Thing As Offline?!? | Idea Channel | PBS

Are You Online?

What an outdated question this has become! Of course you're online, unless you're an off-the-grid survivalist or a remote tribesmen!! From Facebook to bank accounts, you always have some sort of online presence, whether you're actively engaging in front of a screen or not. Yet this is still a word we use to describe our engagement with the Internet. So we have to ask, is this online/offline distinction even worth making? Because we may need to re-evaluate the very word "ONLINE"...

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[Arthur60001]

Vsause has met its match with the Idea Channel

[tiffanywalkera]

It's not that you are interacting with the internet that makes you offline, its that the internet can not interact with you. At any moment, your phone can ring, you can receive a text, an email, someone will post a comment on your wall, automated transactions occur in yo0ur bank account. Your physical presence at the screen is no longer necessary to be online.

[brannoch watt]

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[Alison Jay]

What is the deep web and what is the dark web??????!!!

[ringindustries]

QUICKLY! Where is Mr. Monfery's comment!

[MorRobots]

WE DID NOT INSTALL THAT LIGHT SWITCH SO YOU COULD THROW A FREEKING RAVE

[Casey Koons]

I tried to link this with a video response but glitch...here's my video response!

watch?v=LlD5M0lXK-M

[tokumoku528]

Define "online" in what way am i online? if i were to be online?

[JonPoncho]

I argue that they're interacting with a virtual puppet until you decide to venture your attention back to the web. Just because I have mail in the mailbox does not mean that I'm home.

[NingenExp]

But that doesn't there is not someone somewhere offline, but I think that's what you refered as "being a monk or a survivalist or a pile of rocks".

[NingenExp]

I was going to say that there are tribes that are "totally" disconnected from the rest of us but then I realized we wouldn't know if they were.

[XAWAT]

hey - he said sorry for that ;)