Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I doubt it. We all want to believe that a quick loss of service will cause societal collapse but the reality is people are much more resilient.
Think back to the nyc blackout in 2003, you’d think it would result in mad max style craziness.
But what actually happened was most folks chilling out together with no real crime wave and the only issue was bodegas overcharging fools for ice cubes.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
They said internet blackout. Which really wouldn’t be too bad in the long term. The world functioned fine without the internet for millennia’s before. The short term would be difficult, but lots of my industry would be relatively unaffected. Things would just take a lot longer, efficiency would be reduced, and there would be a lot more phone calls and hard copy files. Just like in the 70’s and 80’s, before computers were truly common.
pwnicholson@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To the point of ‘how the Internet blacked out’ - a lot of what you think of as ‘phone’ today actually goes via IP over data, not analog voice. It would mean we all have to turn back on our land lines, which would take ages and a lot of business and logistics would be pretty rough for a while. Those few places with working phones would have lines of people waiting to use them until it was restored more widely.