Consider this

You get home from work tonight to find that all TV services have suffered a disastrous breakdown. You have no TV and it takes a week to get it back up and running again.

Or

You get home from work tonight to find that the Internet has suffered a disastrous breakdown. You have no Internet access and it takes a week to get it up and running again.

Under which scenario would you feel less well informed.

We are, mainly, children of the TV revolution. Many of us were brought up relying on TV for entertainment and information and I for one would have found life without it (having had it) a very strange and isolating experience indeed.

However, I think things have changed.