[Sreekar911]

Even more previous generations' people would make the same argument: "Is telephone really a necessity? We lived without telephones and we were fine, our life was fine" and so on. Replace telephone with telegram or a car for even earlier generations.

Now the problem with this argument is that we're not living in that generation. We're living in the present generation, where a decent, if not high speed internet is absolutely essential in order to progress. Can you still live without internet in the present generation? Sure. But is there a remote chance that such life would be comfortable and painless? Absolutely not. Not even a chance.