In-Flight Wi-Fi: Needed or Unnecessary?

I fly a lot – most of the flights I take are considerably short trips, maybe 5 hours at most. Being in the field I’m in, I need the internet, scratch that, I live for the internet, I make a living through the internet, so obviously it is important that me and others, whose job depend on being “connected” should always be “connected”. I was reading an article about current terror attacks that put in-flight Wi-Fi at risk and I was thinking why do we actually really need in-flight Wi-Fi? Sure there can be flights that can last over 15 hours and to think, a poor being would be without the opportunity to check email, facebook and even tweet about the long treacherous flight, that does sound pretty bad , but should we risk our lives for it?  I really have no idea behind the mechanisms of Wi-Fi and terror. I can tell from the headlines I see that in these days hackers are advancing just as fast as technology is, maybe it’s just something that the media is doing to scare us again but who knows? When I think about it, the best flight I ever took was when I finally got around to reading the book I had been meaning to read for the last 2 months or taking that long deserving nap. To sum it up, as soon as the words “terror and airplane” are thrown in one sentence, I think people we’ll pretty much agree to anything if it means to have a safe /terror- free flight.



What do you think about it? Can you go for a few hours without being online?