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Why the Internet will collapse one day, and what you should do when it happens

It is my firm belief that, one day, we will wake up and try to connect to the world through our websites, facebook, and twitter accounts, and find that the entire Internet is down. We will resort to outdated technologies (television) and find out our worse fears are true - the Internet is completely non functional.

As someone who makes his living from the Internet, this is a pretty weird thing to say. Yet, I have a fairly good understanding of how this corner of the technology world works, and I can see it is a distinct possibility. We have recently seen DDOS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) on Facebook and Twitter, and government and commercial sites are under constant daily attack. Botnets  (networks of infected PCs with robot programs) constantly scan our data center. One day, the Barbarians will break through the gates.

So, what should you do when this happens? First, think "Bruce said this would happen one day". Next, take a deep breath and remember these facts:

  • Human civilization lasted thousands of years without it
  • There will be thousands of very smart people working to bring it back on line
  • The "bad guys" don't want to permanently bring the Internet down - they would be killing the goose that lays the golden cyber eggs.

So, step away from the computer, put down your iphone, step outside and look around. The birds are still singing, the sky is still blue, your heart is still beating. Soon enough, the noise and traffic of our hyper connected world will once more fill our lives with too much information and too little wisdom.

And remember, you heard it here first.

 

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