All the dickheads who said the concept of a national postal service has been made obsolete by the Internet are going to get a very rude awakening soon They are also going to find out that the exact same forces that ruined the USPS can and will also easily ruin the Internet
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One big reignited Cold War between two superpowers, like the escalated US/China conflict Trump keeps obviously jerking off to the idea of, and "the Internet" as we know it starting to fall apart is extremely plausible
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I mean, the rise of the Internet has been, for the most part, riding on the global economic boom we've had coming out of the '80s For all the hiccups we've had since then (including the big one in '09) we haven't seen the "digital economy" withstand a Great Depression event
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We're kind of spoiled, with this ongoing assumption that bandwidth and storage just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper over time -- Google confidently talking about more and more stuff getting "too cheap to meter" over time, throwing more and more shit onto the "cloud"
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I still don't actually think COVID-19 is likely to lead to a serious economic apocalypse where lights start going out worldwide But it looks a lot more *possible* than it did a while ago, especially if international relations break down and war looms on the horizon
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Yeah: remember when Syria was cut from the Internet because the Assad regime shut down the physical infrastructure, which is mostly cables and outlets, just as they started gunning down protesters with live ammo? 'Cause I sure do
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