Posted March 25, 2023
Cadaver747: P.S. If the Sun somehow would break the internet even for a day, I would celebrate! (unless some disasters happens due to it)
Braggadar: You can take it as a given that chaos will ensue if the internet goes down, even for a day, a week, a month. Everything in this society is so tied to using the internet that nothing will be working.
When the internet goes down at the local store they can't use their card facilities. If they've decided not to use cash nor keep a paper receipt book below the counter they're not going to sell you stuff. And that happens on a local outage. Imagine even going to a hospital with their systems down. IT systems are no-longer independent if they lose connection. They use off-site record-keeping etc and the system becomes useless without that off-site server access.
"Should I be neurotically concerned about that event not happening?"