"Why have we gotten to the point where we have permitted militaries of various states to use civilian commercial data centers for their military purposes?"
You do realize just how interconnected the world’s gotten, right? Most trade happens over telecommunications, nobody sends written letters or telegrams anymore and even phone calls are digital now. If you live far enough away from food production, you may in fact starve since until the barter economy gets efficient enough, nobody’s going to be bringing it to the grocery store near you… And you might not even own any physical goods valuable enough to trade for food.
I’m 51, kiddo. I grew up using cash and writing checks. And that world is gone.
If you kill all the datacenters, all those neat little cards in your pocket cease to function. And going to the bank won’t get you any money because they can’t interconnect anymore. Going to the grocery store and gas station will soon dry up even if you have cash because they can’t coordinate deliveries anymore.
how old are you? do you remember life before the internet? lol.
You do realize just how interconnected the world’s gotten, right? Most trade happens over telecommunications, nobody sends written letters or telegrams anymore and even phone calls are digital now. If you live far enough away from food production, you may in fact starve since until the barter economy gets efficient enough, nobody’s going to be bringing it to the grocery store near you… And you might not even own any physical goods valuable enough to trade for food.
neat.
Huh. Cool.
I’m 51, kiddo. I grew up using cash and writing checks. And that world is gone.
If you kill all the datacenters, all those neat little cards in your pocket cease to function. And going to the bank won’t get you any money because they can’t interconnect anymore. Going to the grocery store and gas station will soon dry up even if you have cash because they can’t coordinate deliveries anymore.
This gets better and better.