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I expect that one mild catastrophe, one that is bound to occur every now and then, one just large enough to disrupt networks for maybe a few weeks or months on
by poisonborz 2y ago
I expect that one mild catastrophe, one that is bound to occur every now and then, one just large enough to disrupt networks for maybe a few weeks or months on a continental scale - would make everyone realize how foolish the whole cloud (first) idea was, and it would be left in the dust along with the perhaps decade of its work and proponents.
- sodality2 2y ago"Disrupt networks" how? It’s very hard to break the internet - it’s designed to be extremely resilient to such catastrophes. The odds of a country suffering from a complete internet blackout for more than a few hours without being induced are incredibly slim, and drop further when the country doesn’t have a single point of failure but instead a huge range of connections geographically distributed. I’d sooner bet on a regional/widespread power grid failure, which at least has way more history of occurring.
- WhyNotHugo 2y agoA couple of years ago, several provinces in the south of Argentina were connected over a single fibre optic cable that stretched for kilometres next to the road (I doubt that this has changed since). One day, some construction work dug right into the fibre optic and left several cities without internet for a couple of days. The Internet is quite resilient in densely populated or wealthy regions, but it's definitely not for a large amount of the human population.
- sodality2 2y agoTrue - but that’s still not on the scale of months. There’s also alternate connection methods like starlink, other mobile providers, etc.