It's amazing how much I now take connectivity for granted. It can't be more than 6 years ago that I would dream that my life would be complete it I could just have cellular internet where ever I traveled, now I can't imagine what it was like back when. The infrastructure is remarkably fragile, there will be a major outage someday soon. Many people have been predicting a full scale collapse of the back bone for 10 years and been laughed at or told 'so what'. Every day that goes by we come to depend on the internet more and more as our primary work, recreation, and communication outlet. Every day it becomes more critical that the backbone gets redesigned to be truly redundant.



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