folekaule@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 1 week ago
Medical systems would collapse and some people would die because if that.
folekaule@lemmy.world 1 week 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.