"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.
Oh please, fuck off. Wealth inequality kills far more, and all of those are problems, but internet disappearing (i.e. datacenters going away) would kill billions within weeks. Some people would survive, but it would be several orders of magnitude worse than any disaster that came before.
People are fucking ignorant and talking out their ass.
Yeah, and who do you think is more contributing to climate change?
Your privilege is showing. I honestly don’t care anymore. Any action that can threaten the status quo always has some shit coming out of the wood work claiming that more people are helped by the status quo than are being hurt. Don’t care anymore. I’ve heard every permutation of this discussion by now.
you say that like it’s a bad thing?
Fucking idiots. Society would LITERALLY fucking collapse and you would fucking starve to death.
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.
That’s already happening from the endless CO2 use.
Oh please, fuck off. Wealth inequality kills far more, and all of those are problems, but internet disappearing (i.e. datacenters going away) would kill billions within weeks. Some people would survive, but it would be several orders of magnitude worse than any disaster that came before.
People are fucking ignorant and talking out their ass.
Yeah, and who do you think is more contributing to climate change?
Your privilege is showing. I honestly don’t care anymore. Any action that can threaten the status quo always has some shit coming out of the wood work claiming that more people are helped by the status quo than are being hurt. Don’t care anymore. I’ve heard every permutation of this discussion by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR7GqLQgmm8
What you are talking about is a wildly fucking different conversation, so fuck off then.