hiphipharrar wrote:
I think you missed the point. The experience of the author was real, not hypothetical. The question was how would you survive?
Quite easily. I'll probably save some money, and have more time to do other things rather than sitting here procrastinating. 😉 I might get around to weeding my yard. From a business point of view, yes it's an issue, BUT if your business rely's on the internet that much, you have make sure you have backups and redundancies. Tim experienced this himself during the exchange fire, and I'm sure he can let us know how it felt first hand. We survived without PCs and the Internet and online banking for many many years (My parents never had a PC when I was a kid), so I think this is a wake up call for us to rely less on it being always there. It's also a wake up call for our communications experts out there, not to put all our eggs in one basket AND in an old crappy building without any fire safety safe guards. Surely there are fire suppression systems out there for exchanges, so you should be asking your ISP/phone provider why they aren't implemented. You will survive, you will learn from the experience, and if you haven't planned for it, your going to learn fast! 😉 The worse case scenario I can see is that we all slow down and learn to appreciate life. It's not all about facebook, twitter, and reality TV. :pan
