How important is the www

If the internet died suddenly, would the effects be positive or negative, or a mix.

we would all be dead... its a common theory that if the internet went dead it would be very much like Y2K which would mean that inverters would go broke(their money is in the stock markets and that is run by the internet) lights would turn off(most lights you see on highways and other important places are run by internet) planes would fall from the sky since they wouldn't know where they were going rockets would shoot off since the only thing holding them down are computers and several other things would be affected, in a nutshell it would be REALLY bad =P

I think it would be both.
it would probably force people to get out more,
but it does make things in life a lot easier...