I hate downtime.
The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.
AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.
The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.
Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?
If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with it? It seems like our dependency on these systems is so great that the room for maneuver as it were is very small. So that is problematic.
Yesterday morning Facebook was temporarily offline, leaving millions of workers unable to do anything except their jobs.
An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
When the actual Bitcoin network launched in 2009, no one knew about it, and many of those who did thought it would surely fail. Just to make sure the thing worked, the scripting language in Bitcoin was intentionally extremely restrictive.
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
