Is 'The Internet' worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize?
It’s been nominated but do you think it suitable to award the Nobel Peace Prize to ‘The Internet’ and if not, why not? If so, why so?
Where should the prize money go? Who should decide what to do with it?
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Everyone should get a penny. And no.
When is the wheel going to get the prize?
While I do think it’s an incredible invention, it can be the reason for peace and the reason for strife.
More than Al Gore, most definitely.
No, it’s for people, not things.
Yeah, so somebody nominated the internet for a Nobel prize. Someone also nominated George W. Bush, Adolf Hitler, and who knows who and what else. Tons of people make tons of nominations, and the only way anyone knows is that the nominator tells people. Big whoop.
That’s lame, nay, savagely lame! That means you’re giving the pedophiles on Dateline NBC, trolls, Craigslist pimps, Chris Crocker and spammers the Nobel prize by virtue of paying an ISP $40 a month.
That’s like when TIME magazine made “you” the man of the year. It’s a hollow gesture which cheapens the award.
No, but maybe “electricity” should be nominated instead.
Puh-leaze.
… and “gravity” while we’re at it. Without gravity we’d all be blown around by the wind.
So “friction” should also get a nomination, too. As well as “lubrication”.
I think we should wait 30 years and see if this fad will stick around. ;-)
I vote for “lubrication”.
Microwave popcorn is more deserving of a Nobel Peace prize.
No. However, on occasion, I believe I have roamed the net to stumble onto a noble piece.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.He gets his name associated with a peace prize.A slight anamoly.
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. The internet is practically a breeding ground for racism and extremism, because you can say whatever stupid thing you want and find people the world over just as ignorant and stupid as yourself.
Giving a Noble prize to the Internet.
Would be like give the prize to the invention of the automobile key.
As you know, without it, cars would not work.
Yes, yes and YES!
All the “No’s” are myopic.
The internet is not a person. It doesn’t actually do anything. It’s the people who make it and use it that actually do things.
You could give the Nobel Prize to me; I haven’t started any wars. Lately. Shooting wars, anyway.
not for peace, but it should for something at least.
nobel prize in human advancement maybe?
@poisonedantidote it could get the Nobel Porn Prize, I suppose.
What?! There isn’t a Nobel Porn Prize? There fuck-all should be, don’t you think?
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