How long do you think we would last?

  • folekaule@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It depends how long it lasts. A day, two days, forever?

    We can probably deal with a day, but it would be very very expensive and take a while to clean up.

    Permanent? That would be extremely bad. Entire industries would collapse, with unemployment skyrocketing. Financial losses of unprecedented scale. I don’t even know where to start.

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        2 days ago

        Yep. A lot of things would go sideways in healthcare if the Internet was down for an extended period of time. Yes, there are paper-based backup processes and so on, but they can only hold for so long. I don’t think people realize how much stuff is already in the cloud that we all depend on.