> Whats the impact if the entire internet is down for a couple of hours? Okay, so obviously a lot of "important" stuff happens via the Internet. You could come

> Whats the impact if the entire internet is down for a couple of hours? Okay, so obviously a lot of "important" stuff happens via the Internet. You could come up with some financial impact if the Internet went down for some time. Harder to measure: A lot of people would be inconvenienced or suffer. Some number of people would die indirectly, e.g. due to emergencies/lack of communication. People are inconvenienced and suffer and die all of the time. It's part of life. I'm not advocating for more death and suffering, but I am saying that, as another comment said, "life goes on". --- Put another way, if the Internet disappeared for a week, month, year, what would happen? It'd suck and we'd adjust, but we (humanity as a whole) would be fine.