High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
That’s the lead graph from a story on CNN that is mostly being overlooked this morning on cable news networks but it’s a bigger deal than you would think.
Within the last decade, we have become more reliant on the internet. It’s more than a tool, it’s a way of life to a large degree where a global community has become aligned. The Internet failure is being blamed on undersea cables that became faulty. The problems it created could have been more severe, but still it has brought up a variety of concerns.
Dubai was hit hard.
However, Dnata, a government group in charge of providing air travel services in the Middle East and ground handling services at Dubai International Airport, acknowledged facing problems because of the outage, sources from its technical department confirmed to CNN Arabic.
The outage heavily crippled Dubai’s business section, which is heavily reliant on electronic means for billions of dollars’ worth of transactions daily.
The outage did not impact the United States or Europe, but it brings up the conversation on how the business world, as well as individuals’ personal ones, are contingent on being connected to the Internet.
If the Internet were to go down, how would business and government handle it? And have we, and I speak of the whole world, become to reliant on the ease that the Internet has provided us?
Philosophical questions that have been pressed this week.
What would happen?
