You can be sure that everyone around the world with a phone and computer will go nutso when sites and apps go down for a longer spell than this morning in the States with this massive internet outage.
It’s obvious governments and corporations are already not ready to deal with cyberware and ransomware attacks, but the failure of content delivery networks–which has just happened–will, undoubtedly happen again, for longer, and be more widespread. No government or company is immune to massive site and app outages.
It’s long been obvious that the machines are fallible and susceptible to crime, corruption, and overload. The one night that the lights went out in New York City in the ’60s will pale to the possibilities events that are forthcoming or imminent.
If a national or global outage occurs, there will likely be chaos and panic in the streets, homes, businesses, home and abroad. All the guys in charge have worshipped and taken the machines for granted for too long.
Excessive reliance on and overabuses of the internet could bring it all down, so to speak. There are way too many bad guys out there and the operations and networks are not perfect or immortal as we well know.
Perhaps the chickens are starting coming home to roost again and this brave new techno-world may already be teetering on the edge of a dangerous 21st-century Dark Age.
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The only note that I will add–based on the experience of having my computer contents totally taken out after innocently searching for treadmill instructions(!)–is that the effects will be sudden, immediate, and without warning. The Big Outage shall, likewise, be blindingly, irrevocably fast and very much one-way.