If the internet disappeared tomorrow, what would break first?

me

Honestly most businesses would panic first. Anyone running ops on cloud tools, payments, logistics, even basic comms would be dead in the water within hours.

Society. Society would fall into complete chaos. Governments would collapse overnight, basic necessities would vanish. The power grid would die within a day, maybe a little longer depending. No one would know where maintenance would need to be done and no communication could happen because now all telecoms are based on internet protocols. Food shipments would stop, and local governments would devolve into more like warlords type societies. Millions would die within the first few weeks and billions would be dead within 6 months due to resource wars. Societies already operating under these conditions would fair much better, but soon mass genocide would become normal as people fought over whatever food, water, fuel that was left. No one could help because no one could communicate, and organizations like police forces would collapse. Communities that self organize might do a little better, but as long as groups of people who have the resolve to commit horrible atrocities, those people would be fighting for the scraps of whatever is left. Wars between countries would try to break out almost overnight, but once again, no communication, no power grid, no water because that depends on the power grid. Nomadic groups of armed genocidal sociopaths would essentially turn everything into a mad max type world, and it would happen very quickly because people would grab what they could as quick as possible. Several years ago I attended a research conference on the US food supply chain, and one of the scientists showed that there was enough food for everyone in the city of Las Vegas for 2 weeks, buts that’s if everyone worked together to make sure food was distributed on an equity basis. We all know from behavior in other survival situations that it would t happen that way, so in reality, he said that there really is only enough food for about 5 days in Las Vegas. Some folks would have enough for months while others would run out in a day or two. But no power, no water, etc. Sounds bleak, but our world has mostly put all of our society and technology eggs into the internet basket. Countries that have decoupled their necessities from the internet would do the best and could survive, as long as they could resist the aforementioned sociopathic genocidal warlords.

Stock market

Stocks

customer service everywhere

Telecom industry

Can we go there?

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