How Wifi Changed Society and the World

It is almost impossible to imagine our current life without logging in our social media accounts or watching music videos on youtube or checking in our latest e-mail. And it is equally inconceivable how we ever got through life some decades back without all these online activities. And with wifi made accessible almost everywhere, we can browse on websites even when we are outside of our homes and offices. There’s no question that humanity’s progress has really gone so far and was elevated at a greater height that even when you are miles and miles away from your family and friends, you can still see their faces and chat with them as if they are just beside you through video-audio calls.  

  Our Days, Pre-Wifi Era

Pre-wifi and pre-internet days, literature books are borrowed from public libraries; shopping for bags, shoes, and clothes was a cardio activity as we spend hours searching for the perfect fit; snail mail takes days before the recipient reads your message. Today, you can download an ibook or e-book copy of your favourite Jane Austen novel, you can shop online for your stiletto shoes, and you can send a love letter by just getting the person’s e-mail address (no stamp needed).

Pre-wifi era, no one brags about how many countries they’ve been to or rants about how their breakfast suck this morning. No one feels the need to take a picture of themselves while in a grocery store buying green apples and grapes. People were more private, and no one seemed to mind if people in Nicaragua are starving. While the advent of this technology has its boons and banes, we can safely say that there are more advantages than negative things can be said about our introduction to the virtual world.

 How about today?

Today, you can easily access everything.  You can travel to Singapore and just bring a portable wifi router and you can even work while you are miles away from your workplace as you can access all information with your portable device. You can be in outside your school in Changi and find a wifi rental spot and you can instantly research for your academic paper and finish writing it outside of the school library. You can book your flight to Hong Kong while sitting on a park bench on an easy Sunday morning.