"12. How often do you fear that life without the Internet would be boring, empty, and joyless?"

Thinking about it, surprisingly often; although not because I couldn't sit and browse websites, but because life would be boring and joyless because I'd have to put aside a whole day every week just to do things like go shopping and visit the bank. I'd waste countless hours writing cheques, looking up words in dictionaries or researching things at the library.

I recently considered renting a huge farmhouse in the middle of nowhere (only one or two other houses for half a mile in every direction, which is remote for England). My first consideration (even before the fact that I don't have a car) was 'I wonder how much two-way satellite internet access costs?'