If the internet goes off, daily life freezes
Have you ever thought about what happens if the internet goes off, all at once? You see it in minutes.
Grocery store: the terminal is on, but payments do not go through. Cards and wallets fail. Lines grow. Airport: planes are ready, but systems do not respond. In the US, in 2023, an FAA system issue stopped all domestic departures for hours. Work: laptops on, but email, cloud tools, sales and payments go offline. Every hour means money lost.
Healthcare: doctors keep working, but records, results and prescriptions become slow or unavailable. City: when power and connectivity fail together, coordination breaks. In San Francisco, a substation fire caused a large outage. Traffic lights went dark. Waymo paused service and robotaxis stopped at intersections.
The network is critical infrastructure, like electricity and water, often more. It holds the other systems together.
Are we protecting it enough?
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