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I've recently been wondering about the opposite. Maybe the whole Internet should be brought down for a couple of weeks a year, so that society can't become tota

I've recently been wondering about the opposite. Maybe the whole Internet should be brought down for a couple of weeks a year, so that society can't become totally dependent on it. Your thermostat shouldn't require a cloud service to work!

tonyedgecombe 5y ago
A global version of chaos monkey to keep us on our toes.
dboreham 5y ago
The 2021 Nobel peace prize will be awarded to BGP
mc32 5y ago
Aside from emergency systems, this is not a bad idea. People need to voluntarily be disconnected from time to time or experience it due to scheduled down time. Maybe follow some international (or local) holiday schedule. Life will go on and people will find solutions to the time when things are off. You should not have to rely on Netflix for entertainment or Facebook for communication, google for information, etc. People will be better prepared for emergencies this way and won't be left as helpless.
- hef19898 5y ago
  One of the most relaxed periods at work, despite a heavy workload, was back when everybody switched from Android phone to iPhones over some security concerns. That switch took almost two weeks, incl. all management functions. So for two weeks, all e-mail and communication had to go through desk phones and your laptop. Back then there was no Teams. And hell was that nice. Nothing was left unattended, everyone was so much more relaxed. And then mobile phones were back again...
- pessimizer 5y ago
  It's so awful that a network created to withstand nuclear attack has not only evolved to have a bunch of centralized points of failure for itself, but even a bunch of services that serve as points of failure for wider society.