Jul 22
The Silent Collapse: Why Your Digital Lifeline Will Fail When You Need It Most
1,391 words, 7 minutes read time. The modern communication grid is a fragile house of cards. We live in an era of hyper-connectivity, yet our ability to coordinate in a crisis has never been more unstable. For decades, we traded the slow, ugly, but undeniably resilient copper-wire networks of the past for the sleek, high-bandwidth digital infrastructure we use today. We were sold the promise of…
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