Apocalypse Survival Skill #7: The Internet is a Place

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Now more than ever we are relying on the internet to satisfy our basic needs and desires. This begs the question, what are apocalypse survival skills for the internet? How do we use the internet as a tool for survival? How do we maintain safety for our communities and our movements for social change when so much of that work must now happen digitally? And what exactly is the internet, anyway? For answers, we turn to digital security expert and organizer for change, Bex Hong Hurwitz of Tiny Gigantic.

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0:00.0	Hello beloved survivors. My name is Autumn Brown and this is how to survive the end of the world.
0:07.2	A podcast about learning from Apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.
0:12.4	We've been talking a lot about how the past grace, rigor, and curiosity.
0:13.2	We've been talking a lot about how the pandemic
0:15.4	has fundamentally altered our lives.
0:18.4	For me, this calls to mind another life-altering
0:21.4	change that happened in our lifetimes, but happened more slowly than the pandemic.
0:26.0	The advent of the internet.
0:29.0	The apocalypse that I think of all oftentimes like, oh yeah, like big shortage of electricity and almost no
0:35.3	Wi-Fi or internet.
0:36.5	So that would be like, oh wait, I can't play Robblocks anymore.
0:41.4	I can't play Sea of thieves anymore. I can't do Adventure Academy for learning time anymore.
0:47.1	The other voice you are hearing is my eldest child Finn. We've been recording our
0:52.3	conversations about apocalypse survival.
0:55.0	To include a lack of internet.
0:57.0	And yet, one of the things that's happening right now
1:01.0	is that we are experiencing this global pandemic that's like
1:06.4	changing the way the world like operates and yet the internet is still a part of our daily lives and in fact people are more
1:16.7	reliant on the internet than ever before and that makes me wonder about
1:27.7	my idea that Apocalypse means absence of internet. Maybe it doesn't.
1:29.6	Even those of us whose lives have spanned the time between the internet being a new fengled
1:33.8	phenomena to a ubiquitous part of everyday life now rely on the internet for our jobs
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