The Internet

Has the Internet become an alternative social construct, do we in fact need to go out ever again?
It's a scary thought !
Ordering your food "on line" along with your other purchases is so easy. Interrogating the world of the shop and its place in the hierarchy of needs, able to peruse everything and evaluate it for price and user-reviews is far better than getting hooked by the first salesman as you enter the shop. Think of the saving, no petrol, no parking, no contest !
Your entertainment comes via the TV and Netflix. The sports channels reveal much more about your sport than you could ever imagine standing on the windy wet corner of a football ground or on a boggy piece of turf at Silverstone or Chepstow. You can lay your bet from your armchair without the sad sight of the addicted shuffling home to explain to his wife why he had blown next weeks groceries.
Visiting the exotic sites you always wished you had been able to, is on Channel 4, a dip below the waves to follow the plight of the turtle is on Channel 1, and if you want to get down and spy on your mate who lives across the other side of the world there is always Google Earth and the street scene option to poke about outside his pad.
Communication has had the telephone but enormously enhanced by Skype or Face Time where the conversation is further enabled by the real time video of his/her and your surroundings as they occur at the minute. It's a conversation tuned to who ever is making the call. Sorry I'm loosing signal !!
Holed up at home, snug against the environment, safe against the latest virus you gaze out through the extended window, not just to the street but to everyone's street, you become the "curtain twitcher" extraordinaire.
24/7, you are in tune with the world, waking with those on the other side of the globe, or watching the sun depart their sky, you look out of your window to see the dawn breaking as the sun rises to warm your patch. It shrivels perspective but enriches our collective view as we shape our separate lives on planet earth.