Mir ist in letzter Zeit aufgefallen, dass fast alle Systeme Fehler machen und sich gerne der Verantwortung dafür entziehen. Autovermietungen, Banken jeglicher Art, Ticketbuchungen, Dienstleistungen aller Art, SaaS usw. verfielen regelmäßig ins Straucheln und entschuldigten sich trotz offensichtlicher Verluste für ihre Kunden nicht mehr für schlechte oder negative Leistungen. Ich fing dementsprechend an, verschiedene Szenarien zu hinterfragen, darunter auch die "Netzwerk-Apokalypse". Was wäre, wenn das Internet als Nervensystem, das alle Organe und Gedanken und alles in einem großen WWW verbindet, zusammenbricht und wir uns in den Grundeinstellungen oder im… befinden "Planet der Affen" Film-Setup in Bezug auf Technologien?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/26/internet-infrastructure-fragile-system-holding-modern-world-together
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It was designed to be very redundant, if memory serves. Like in a nuclear war, if node A gets knocked out, node B takes over. It’s been a long time since I read up on this, so forgive my poor recollection.
We, humans, are very talented creatures in the destruction aspect of our nature. I find localization and isolation scenario possible, unfortunately. WWW can get damaged or at least challenged and stay conditionally world wide, but rather become regional, concentrated around powerful hubs with extremely good security and economic confidence. Look at China: internet isolation is huge except for the areas where it is beneficial for Chinese economy and geopolitics.
The Amazon outage exposed a weakness in the system. The race is on between big tech companies to get their individual data centers to be able to operate independently in case of an emergency. It will cost a lot of money but not as much if their competitors do it first, because independent operation is something their customers are going to consider a necessity.
My assumption is that if Republicans get desperate, they will force communications systems to go down (internet, mobile phones, etc.) to cause chaos. That would be one of my triggers to refuse to go back to work.
The internet goes offline all the time. Just like roads corrode if not maintained and buildings do the same, the internet needs constant repair to function.
It’s a much shorter lived infrastructure though. A disused bridge can still be safe after 10 years, but a lot of compute hardware is lucky just to reach 10 years of operation, nevermind doing so without administrative support.
So, yea, the world is supported by an internet of toothpicks.