Internet would become the most expensive commodity in the world.

[nosferzd]

I think Mark Zuckerberg used to advocate free internet access to everybody around the the globe, despite internet cost almost nothing to connect two devices, what is spend during the transmission of internet data are just so satellite radio waves or some wire cable electricity, compare to digging gold from the earth crust, you digging gold you need a lot of men’s power, you need a lot of chemicals, you need a lot of heat to melt gold, a lot of petrol to move the gold, a lot of space to store the gold, a lot of everything to keep gold to what we have today, but it mean nothing. Internet would become the most expensive commodity eventually, you would gonna spend a lot of your hard earned money on internet bills and make the greedy conglomerate who control the entire internet water pipe business and force you to pay all your money to access the internet the entire life of you living on this earth, the free internet is dead, the free education is dead, the toll free road is dead, and we all have forgotten what they promise to give us free water free electricity free healthcare free retirement, soon we will forget we used to promise free internet access to all investors, btw it’s all a lie.

Over the past 15 years, the Internet has become very cheaper, in 2007 I paid 3 times more for limited traffic and the speed is 40 times less than it is now. And with the spread of the Internet throughout the planet and the development of technology, it becomes only cheaper and better. Perhaps he is now a little more expensive due to the crisis, that's all.

[Subbir]

Because of the crisis the web will increase the value of the web but people won't stop using the web Because without the web everything is idle the web will become the foremost expensive product within the world and can speed up our operations and make the transaction much faster and faster. Currently the web is trying to enhance Without the web trade and commerce are going to be about inevitable.

[Ucy]

Well, this is why it's important to spend your online life doing productive things. Such things will help in taking care of whatever bill (appropriate bill) that is given to you.

And this is a great opportunity for people to start build sites that consume less data/energy.

Better we spend more of our online time on good/safe things that are beneficial to others and us. This can be better handled on well decentralized tech.

Gold won't be the main thing I will consider to survive in a world of choas. I will rely more on things that are abundant I can produce quickly myself. Example natural food, mud, etc

[Broly46]

Getting cheaper? I used to pay for only broadband in the past. Today we pay for mobile data, broadband data, VPN data, anti virus, cloud computing, cloud storage, subscriptions, yyy, oh and you tell me you are paying lesser on the internet? Ironic!

First you need to understand that the price and availability of the internet is not the same all over the world, and that you give your opinion based only on what you can conclude from your personal example. Secondly, you can't compare the Internet 15 years ago when we used dial-up modems and speeds that were ridiculously low compared to today's.

My monthly plan for fixed internet that is unlimited at 40 Mbps cost around 20 EUR, but that is also including landline phone with unlimited calls within the country. 5 years ago I was paying a lot worse service around 30 EUR, so in my case the quality of service is increased and the price reduced.

Everything else you cite as internet expenses are just additional services, and cannot be counted in the base price of the internet. I pay for my antivirus $5 few years ago (the subscription is still functioning), and I watch best satellite programs for $5 months or even less - generally for all the services I pay a lot less than before.

Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!

[Lucius]

Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!

As I have already written, your problems and your understanding of the situation arise from your personal experience - I, like some others, wrote my own experience, which is exactly the opposite of what you present in your views. I do not need VPN, not interested in Chinese sites and why should I use dial-up since there is no such service in my country?

If you are in a situation where you have expensive internet and have to use VPN (which can be bought again at a very good price) it does not mean that internet will be the most expensive thing in the world.

[Broly46]

Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!

As I have already written, your problems and your understanding of the situation arise from your personal experience - I, like some others, wrote my own experience, which is exactly the opposite of what you present in your views. I do not need VPN, not interested in Chinese sites and why should I use dial-up since there is no such service in my country?

If you are in a situation where you have expensive internet and have to use VPN (which can be bought again at a very good price) it does not mean that internet will be the most expensive thing in the world.

I like that you want to stress the impression that user experience come first. Let see what I want to say, in the past, I can use internet for 24/7 download without compromising my user experience overall, but today, despite higher speed higher bandwidth in term of everything,  can I still use internet 24/7 and without compromising the experience I get in the past? I highly doubt so, by now the user experience is very bad, if you don’t go for the most higher end of the internet package, you won’t be able to enjoy the same user experience you get in the past.

[Broly46]

Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!

As I have already written, your problems and your understanding of the situation arise from your personal experience - I, like some others, wrote my own experience, which is exactly the opposite of what you present in your views. I do not need VPN, not interested in Chinese sites and why should I use dial-up since there is no such service in my country?

If you are in a situation where you have expensive internet and have to use VPN (which can be bought again at a very good price) it does not mean that internet will be the most expensive thing in the world.

I like that you want to stress the impression that user experience come first. Let see what I want to say, in the past, I can use internet for 24/7 download without compromising my user experience overall, but today, despite higher speed higher bandwidth in term of everything,  can I still use internet 24/7 and without compromising the experience I get in the past? I highly doubt so, by now the user experience is very bad, if you don’t go for the most higher end of the internet package, you won’t be able to enjoy the same user experience you get in the past.

Let’s view it in a different light, Mark Zuckerberg narrate that Internet was like food and water. In the past I was enjoy the food which are consist of seafood/chicken/hams/burgers/pizza etc, and yeah the overall experience of the food is very good, I enjoy the food a lot in the past. Today the food is the same price, and what I get is broccoli/soymeat/soy burger/soy pizza/soy seafood, don’t get me wrong they’re all look the same taste the same and you get the best bang out of the bucks, but can you call that your experience didn’t get compromised? And why I compare internet to food, I should compare apple to apple. Not comparing apple to orange, but internet was like food and water, so is internet is apple, food and water is apple, and apple is apple is water is food become established? Yeah food is becoming very expensive, I doubt food isn’t the second most expensive items by the time of crisis like today, internet will rank the first place.

[hatshepsut93]

The truth is, we all get richer with every day, in the early days people were paying hundreds of dollars per month to get an internet connection that could barely load simple web pages, now you can stream gigabytes of movies in ultra hd quality. Today's $50 phones are much more powerful than $500 phones from 10 years ago. Technology isn't getting more expensive, it gets cheaper because it develops very quickly. I don't see any reason for the internet to become the most expensive commodity.

[Meowth05]

I don't think that it will become more expensive, maybe electricity will surge higher because we are losing more and more fuels so the lesser the fuel then the more expensive the electricity will be, next thing would be gas, I think most of the basic necessities will surge in the near future.

[TheGreatPython]

Internet companies are the ones that are really going to benefit at this time because everyone is at home and most people are spending their time on TikTok, Triller, and Instagram and other social platforms. Whenever I open my Instagram I'm always seeing Triller and TikTok videos, like so many of them everyday. That shows that a lot of people are bored and they are looking for ways that they can keep themselves busy and not get bored.

Another set of people are the internet/network providers, they are other companies that are going to profit, but I'm hoping that they cut their charges and make things easy for people.

[Broly46]

The truth is, we all get richer with every day, in the early days people were paying hundreds of dollars per month to get an internet connection that could barely load simple web pages, now you can stream gigabytes of movies in ultra hd quality. Today's $50 phones are much more powerful than $500 phones from 10 years ago. Technology isn't getting more expensive, it gets cheaper because it develops very quickly. I don't see any reason for the internet to become the most expensive commodity.

It’s acceptable for a smart device to get much cheaper, internet is perishable item much like food and water, you pay for food everyday, you pay for water everyday, it’s the monthly bills that’s going to drain more money than you can imagine. There is no doubt price is going down, what we failed to see is price itself is often deceiving, we often listen to people blaming Big Mac is going up again and it’s gettig expensive, but the price for a Big Mac is barely $5, that’s right, food price can become most expensive despite the price itself is as low as $5, the same goes for internet, you may say internet price is $5 and it’s cheaper than Big Mac, still you’re gonna pay everyday.

[Broly46]

I don't think that it will become more expensive, maybe electricity will surge higher because we are losing more and more fuels so the lesser the fuel then the more expensive the electricity will be, next thing would be gas, I think most of the basic necessities will surge in the near future.

I believe in Mark Zuckerberg insight: “internet was like food and water”. They’re all necessity items, and all necessity items are expensive, you will need regulation to control the price or the high demand will drive the price up to the sky.

[Broly46]

Internet companies are the ones that are really going to benefit at this time because everyone is at home and most people are spending their time on TikTok, Triller, and Instagram and other social platforms. Whenever I open my Instagram I'm always seeing Triller and TikTok videos, like so many of them everyday. That shows that a lot of people are bored and they are looking for ways that they can keep themselves busy and not get bored.

Another set of people are the internet/network providers, they are other companies that are going to profit, but I'm hoping that they cut their charges and make things easy for people.

They will definitely benefit a lot, the underlying cost of internet itself is negligible, it’s lower cost than water pipe network, railway network, and yes we don’t argue with the initial cost invested into developing 5G, or even the previous 4G, 3G too incurred high RnD cost, by now internet company are ripping profit from their investment, it wouldn’t take very long for them to become most valuable company, and little doubt about internet become a commodity that’s cost an arm and a leg.

[AniviaBtc]

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That’s lame if you judge it based on stock market paper market value, why not calling bitcoin the most valuable since it’s once crossing trillions dollar benchmark in term of market cap.

Yes, to be honest that is lousy, I am hesitant to say that BTC is the most valuable "commodity", even though I believe that BTC is (supposedly) the most valuable.

But, we return to the fact that BTC has not yet reached the entire world community. Besides, the world community generally considers the "stability" as a benchmark for determining the value of a commodity. Besides that the general public still has superficial thoughts about BTC even though BTC "it’s once crossing trillions dollar benchmark in term of market cap" as you said.

We can't deny it that we can't live without internet because most of the things in this world are operated by the internet. That's why we are connected as one in social media, that's one of the function of the internet today. It will probably the most expensive commodity around the world because the only thing that varies in internet are those internet providers. That's the reason we have different kind of internet speed in mbps, it is based on the amount that we registered. In contrast to BTC, it is enough and its price is certainly volatile compared to the price of internet when it become a commodity because of their importance in the community. Many can hold or store BTC in their account but some people can only become an internet provider and run an internet in their businesses.

[bitgolden]

Internet has always been the most valuable commodity in the world, it will continue to be so because it allows us to connect with each other all around the world. But lets not forget that all other things you are paying for every month is also equally important and also even provides for your internet as well in some cases.

Electricity, water, gas, phones, these are all important stuff that you have to keep paying for, without water you can't take a shower or to go bathroom, without gas you can't get hotter and during winters it might result with some people dying, without phones you will not be able to check whatsapp every five minutes to see if there is a new message (okay maybe I might be too harsh on phones). So, yes internet is very important and maybe more than some others but others are also very important as well.

[Saisher]

In our country it is expensive I don't mind the cost but i don't like the internet provider in my country limiting our bandwidth I got a higher plan with 25 MBPS but I am only getting 1 MBPS most of the time, these providers are abusing their customers they will give you higher bandwidth if you are a new client but as later on they will reduce your bandwidth.

[ethereumhunter]

In our country it is expensive I don't mind the cost but i don't like the internet provider in my country limiting our bandwidth I got a higher plan with 25 MBPS but I am only getting 1 MBPS most of the time, these providers are abusing their customers they will give you higher bandwidth if you are a new client but as later on they will reduce your bandwidth.

Well, it's no surprise to see in some country, the internet cost still expensive. That is because, in that country, the infrastructure for a high-speed internet connection not already built, and they still depend on the old infrastructure. If they want to upgrade the hardware, that means it will cost much money for them, and besides that, I think they have another important thing that they need to do for their country. But I am sure that if they are ready with the money that needed to build the new infrastructure, they will get that, and people will have a high-speed internet connection.

[fiulpro]

Internet is a necessary evil and I do think it astounds me that people are now more connected than ever what is more apparent is their need of internet which is quite similar to their need of oxygen.
You wake up in the morning and without internet , you are going to have a panic attack. I think it is something that people values a lot and they would for sure prevent a senario of the kind you elaborated to be in existence. People would live without food for a day if you give them internet, trust me . I do not think anyone is going to let that happen.

[Monteja]

I fully admit that the Internet will become more expensive in the near future. But to be honest, I’m not afraid of this, since the Internet is a very good tool for studying information from various fields. This is one of the few places where you can openly convey the truth to people.

[Subbir]

Without the web we might not be ready to do anything. In today's world of technology without Internet access may be a major obstacle Not only does it openly convey information but we will easily find everything within the world reception where it's happening. within the future the web will improve and become costlier.