Today, I was on the subway, because the signal is not stable, there was a road mobile phone networks into 2G State, many app directly declared unable to work, will be there to turn in circles. This kind of thing I think we all no less experienced.

Due to only 2 g operators before too, in order to speed faster and 3G and 4G, I decided two years ago to replace the operator. Enjoy high speed mobile network, 2G network now with no net the same to me. No network is really very difficult.

The Verge of a few years ago an editor Paul Miller had done an Internet experiment, in one year's time, he privately still do not use the network, all computers, iPhone, iPad is set to offline status. Bought a older Nokia phones, lived a 2G life. Reason to do so, because he felt that the Internet should not have full control over their lives:

I am so "familiar" Internet, that my life is all it, it makes me very worried. I'm pretty sure the Internet has invaded where it shouldn't go.

A year in the past, he has lost 15 pounds, and attention also greatly improved when reading, feel hard to read 10 pages of books, become able to relax reading 100 pages of a book. But when he ended the experiment after writing the first sentence is: "I was wrong. ”

Network although there are beautiful places, but no network is also very bad. He will not go out and ride a bike and play Frisbee, but with many different places because it is difficult to contact friends and alienated.

It is clear that we are not willing to go back to the year of 2G era.

Two years ago, and last year, Australia's two operators Telstra and Optus have announced that it will stop at the end of 2016 and April 2017 2G services. United States operator at and t and Singapore carrier Singtel also stopped in 2017 2G services. Children will grow up in a few years will not know what is 2G experience, just like most of our generation have come across when "big brother" like the analog signals of mobile phones.

But there are always people can accept the 2G network live in my hometown, my grandparents are still in the 2G cell phone, phone model has been forgotten, a few years ago that add 200 you can buy at the store. Apparently BAT big three executives who they do not care, mobile Internet has no impact on their lives, cell phone rings, don't charge too high. Cell phones for them, is a tool to contact relatives and friends.

Same situation also occurs in developed countries abroad, in the above mentioned Australia, Mashable spoke to some users who still use 2G service. 61 year old Rachel said she was enjoying the 2G network, on the one hand she didn't want to phone bills are too expensive, on the other hand, she said: "I was walking down the street looking down Internet access that's not interested. ”

While Antony, 28 in the past few years have been using a Nokia phone that support only 2G network at an age when people will have such an approach are fairly uncommon, he did this because he did not want to be disturbed too much, nor too addicted to the Internet.

It's like someone asking you used when there is no widespread use of electricity, how human society works together?

There was no electricity, society as a whole with no way to get to work, written with a pen and paper, correspondence, point lights were dark at night, was out of power. Power spread, the whole society is so dependent on electricity, we use a computer for recording, go home and turn the computer on and watch TV in the evening, this time to tell you no ... ...

Technology development, it makes our life more convenient, but unconsciously, whether willing or not, you and I are involved, it is difficult to escape.

But who really want to get out of it? Meditation, while signal recovery, I pick up the phone, bring up the barcode to the convenience store to pay the cashier, "di", checkout is complete.

今天在地铁上的时候，由于信号不稳定，有那么一段路手机网络还是变成了2G状态，许多app直接宣告无法工作，只会在那里转圆圈。这种事情相信大家都没少遇到过。

由于嫌之前的运营商只有2G，为了网速更快的3G和4G，两年前我下定决心更换运营商。享受到了高速的移动网络之后，如今2G网络对我来说就跟没网一样。没了网，真的非常难适应。

几年前The Verge的一位编辑Paul Miller拿自己做了一个断网实验，在为期一年的时间里，他不论私底下还是工作都不使用网络，电脑、iPhone、iPad全部被设置成断网状态。买了一部旧式的诺基亚手机，过起了2G生活。之所以要这么做，是因为他觉得互联网不应该完全控制自己的生活：

我如此“熟悉”互联网，以至于我的生活全部都是它，这让我十分担心。我非常确信，互联网已经入侵了它不该去的地方。

一年过去，他体重减轻了15磅，阅读时的注意力也极大提高，从看10页书都觉得困难，变成能够轻轻松松读上100页书。不过当他结束实验之后写出来的第一句话是：“我错了。”

断网虽然有美好的地方，但其实没有网络也挺糟糕的。他不会因此多出去骑单车玩飞盘，反而因此跟许多异地的朋友因为难以联系而关系疏远。

很显然我们是不愿意回到当年的2G时代的。

在前年和去年，澳大利亚的两家运营商的Telstra和Optus相继宣布将在2016年底和2017年4月停止2G服务。美国运营商AT&T和新加坡运营商Singtel同样将于2017年停止2G服务。几年后即将长大的孩子们将不会知道2G是什么体验，就像我们这一代人大多没接触过当年“大哥大”手机的模拟信号一样。

不过也总有人可以接受2G网络的生活在老家，我的爷爷奶奶也仍然在用2G手机，手机型号已然被人遗忘，几年前在商店加200元就可以换购的那种。很明显BAT三大巨头高管姓甚名谁他们毫不关心，移动互联网也丝毫没有影响到他们的生活，手机能响、话费别太高就成。手机对他们而言，就是一个联系亲戚朋友的工具而已。

同样的情况也出现在国外的一些发达国家，在上面提到过的澳大利亚，Mashable采访了几位仍然使用2G服务的用户。61岁的Rachel表示她很享受2G网络，一方面她不想电话账单太贵，另一方面她说：“我对于走在街上低头上网这种事儿没兴趣。”

而28岁的Antony过去几年来一直用着一部只支持2G网络的诺基亚手机，这个年纪的人会有这种做法相当少见，他之所以这么做是因为他并不想被过多打扰，也不想太沉迷于互联网。

这就好比有人问你：以前没有大规模使用电力的时候，人类社会是怎么运转得起来的？

当年没有电，整个社会就以没有电的方式去运转，用纸笔书写，用书信联系，晚上天暗了就点个灯，本来就没电。而电力普及开来，整个社会都如此依赖电力，大家都用电脑办公记录，晚上回家开电脑看电视，这个时候再给你说没电……

技术的发展，的确让我们的生活更加方便，但在无形中，不论愿意与否，你我多少都会被卷入其中，难以逃离。

但是谁真的想逃离呢？沉思之余，信号恢复的我拿起手机，调出支付条码给便利店收银员，“嘀”，结账完成。