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        Home Design: The Augmented Reality (AR) helps the home design a lot as it provides innovative ways to improve the design. However, without the internet, AR won’t be able to operate. People cannot not rely on using the AR for the interior design such as the placement of the furniture, modifications of the layout of a room and other interior design. People might need to use the traditional methods to design like using pencil and paper. It will be much more inconvenient as it has some limitations on the design and creativity. It is more time consuming and might delay the project which increases the costs.
        
        Smart Home: Smart home is unable to work. People would no longer be able to use the smart home device to control the lighting, heating or the appliances through their smartphones or other devices. The control of these things will become manual again instead of controlling them by the smart home apps in phone. The past records and data might be lost due to the disappear of the internet. People cannot use the data to analyze the usage of energy and the performance of the appliances.
        
        Security Systems: The security systems cannot function properly as they require internet for the real-time monitoring. Live videos from the security cameras will be inaccessible. These will strongly affect the safety and significantly increase the risk of the security issues.
      - Lifestyle Changes:
        People will transition into a slower pace of life, the younger generation would have longer attention spans and a lot more patience as short form videos and instant dopamine hits from online platforms cease to exist. Students would have gotten used to having very little distractions while studying as mobile phones don’t have nearly as much appeal without the internet. A big problem nowadays are the sleep schedules of the younger generation, a lot of students often sleeping at sunrise and waking up in the afternoon, due to addiction to online videogames, and content consumption. This would result in students being healthier overall, and have more focus on their schoolwork. However, this does not necessary mean these students can create better work than currently, as the internet is also immensely useful as a tool for learning. For example all the writing, graphing, drawing, modeling, has to be done on paper, by hand, all the research has to be learned through finding the right books. The internet allows information to be recorded and transfer at the speed of light, and makes most steps in traditional studying redundant, enhancing the productivity by multiple factors. So without the internet, students would be healthier, have better mindset, focus, patience, but would be end up not as productive.
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        Communal spaces within buildings, such as lobbies and recreational areas, would see a return to more traditional, non-digital interactions. While this might foster a stronger sense of community, it would also mean missing out on the benefits of smart technology, like automated climate control and efficient lighting systems.
        
        The lack of internet would also slow down communication between residents and building management, complicating maintenance and emergency responses. Overall, the communal aspect of retrofitting old buildings into smart buildings would be significantly affected, pushing communities to rely on less efficient, more labor-intensive solutions to maintain and improve their living spaces. The drive towards a smarter, more efficient urban lifestyle would be substantially hindered, affecting the quality of life for residents.
        
        Without internet connectivity, the core principle of smart buildings—interconnectivity—would be impossible. The sophisticated IoT systems designed to improve energy efficiency, security, and convenience would be rendered useless. Retrofitting efforts would come to a halt, leaving old buildings reliant on outdated systems. This would hinder progress towards more sustainable living environments, causing higher energy consumption and operational costs.
      - Creating smaller public facilities The lack of networks could contribute to an increase in crime rates due to inadequate surveillance, potentially resulting in a higher frequency of fatalities. This absence of automation would motivate communities to build more public facilities such as police departments, libraries, and fire rescue at a smaller scale to cover a larger area. For instance, items like entertainment sourced from CDs in libraries might be valued much more under these circumstances.
      - Rise in Industrial Areas: The absence of automation (IOT) would lead to a resurgence in formerly automated jobs, necessitating more manual labour. Industrial districts will rise in popularity. Large spaces for production with tariffs to accommodate workers similar to China will likely form due to the lack of land in Hong Kong. With the access to the coastline, components and fuel can be reestablished through trading with merchants. Due the shift to a secondary sector-based area, large industrial facilities will be built with many shops and roads connecting to the port. Additionally due to the breakdown of transportation like the MTR, more ports will form to connect communities.
      - Paradigm Regression After a year without internet, individuals may migrate towards locations that prioritize local sustainability. Smaller communities might develop alternative built environments, considering the delayed flow of information. The speed of information dissemination decreasing could shrink the sphere of influence. In the absence of the internet, reliance on traditional mediums like newspapers and bulletin announcements would resurge. This will change communities to towns or districts that specialise production to be able to survive (in the case for Hong Kong).
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        Transportation Developments:
        As the demand for in-person activities increases, railroad and marine transportation through rivers and lakes will be more developed, and new types of transportation and new mediums for current transportation methods will emerge, like tunnels underground or taller stacked bridges for cars. Cargo transportation would be less efficient due to the lack of intelligent inventory management for warehouses, airports and shipping ports. Citizens will travel more within their country, often in cars, since the logistics for air transport, such as the air traffic control towers would be much more difficult to function without high-speed communications. Transportation of energy could face headwinds as countries with good geographical positions could take advantage of their control over shipping routes and profit from it.
        
        Changes in Behavior:
        Smaller local communities would be more united, as people currently living in those communities have fewer things to do physically since the small town does not have many activities, so most of their time is spent online. Therefore without the Internet, everyone would have more face-to-face interactions building stronger bonds within these communities. As a result, everyone would become more honest, because messages and discussions people have online can be extremely nasty as people would not have to face the consequences of saying that to someone in person. The disappearance of social media will make it a lot harder to compare and for people to become envious, as you only see the tip of the iceberg of people’s lives through social media. Nobody will post their imperfections and unfortunate events in their lives. Without the comparison of your normal life to the best highlight of somebody else’s, people overall throughout the globe would be more content with the life they live.
        
        Corporate, Government and Territorial Changes:
        Without the internet, communicating through long distances within a country or across borders is much harder. This would result in any state, city, or province in a country being much more self-reliant, improving basic infrastructure, and being less dependent on its central government. Governments and companies would also act differently without the abundance of instantly available information. Nowadays, a variety of important decisions within companies and government are made from communication through online messengers or an intranet (an entity's private internet). This would result in slower decision-making, and without the ability to check information instantly, the final decisions are likely to be of less quality. Multinational corporations would be much harder to manage without the high-speed communication that the Internet offers, so there might be a physical limit to how big a corporation can grow. Global metropolises like Hong Kong or New York would retain their dominance since remote areas without the convenience of the delivery of goods and services online become much less attractive places to live, however, medium-sized cities will also grow as the people who do not have the wealth to move into the highest standard cities will start moving into medium-sized cities for more convenience. Military tensions for some nations would increase due to the increased demand for natural resources like oil and gas due to the increased demand, and critical information would be harder to obtain for government intelligence agencies. The concept of a global superpower is diminished, as the exponential growth without the internet is infeasible. Some countries would emerge as the strongest regionally, but the most powerful nation would be a close contention between these regional superpowers.
      - Communications: Firstly, with communications between people made less convenient, the construction sector may cluster geographically by merging offices to facilitate better communications, hence reducing the barrier of communication and enhancing efficiency. Moreover, more people may be recruited to handle logistics. Without digital messaging, clients may have to receive a physical copy through mail or go up to offices in person to monitor progress, therefore to enhance efficiency, more people may be needed as mailman or logistics manager. Last but not least, companies may establish a branch near the factories or manufacturers. Without e contact, procurement processes will be hindered as originally companies may simply get a photo of the sample to ensure that the resource is what they want, yet without the internet, companies may have send staff to visit the factory in person to ensure that the material is up to standard and is what they want, making things inefficient. Hence if a branch is near the factories or manufacturers, the procurement process may be made more efficient as a staff could easily go across the street to ensure the materials are right instead of having to wait for a days to get a sample through mail.
      - Change in design and planning processes: With the phasing out of internet-dependent applications such as BIM and drones, designing, modeling and surveying has to be made manually. Hence universities or schools may have to shift their teaching focus towards such aspects. Take land surveying as an example, surveying of land used to be done by drones which help with topography, drawing boundaries and determining land quality. Without such technology, people may have to adjust to doing their jobs manually despite it being much slower.
      - Change in project monitoring and safety: As safety monitoring systems such as SafetyCulture and iAuditor fail to operate without the internet, more people may have to be recruited for monitoring and security to ensure that the building process is safe and up to standard.
      - Halting of projects: Without the internet, building initiatives such as incorporating internet of things to smart buildings or green initiatives may not be made possible, hence building plans involving such concepts may have to be redesigned or canceled.
      - Change in demand of infrastructures: With online payment and shopping being unavailable, people may have to resort to brick and mortar shops for purchasing daily groceries or lifestyle products. Hence the demand for shopping malls or retail shops would increase, leading to an increase in construction of infrastructure of such kind. Moreover, more conference rooms and office spaces may be needed in face of the decline of virtual meetings or remote work.