What would we do if the thing we depend on the most is lost? Do we go back to the stone age?

A really good article written by Amanda Wills called "What Would We Do If the Internet Crashed", which you can find it here,
-http://mashable.com/2013/03/18/internet-crash-danny-hillis/#QNE2L6ihSSqp
really breaks down the true and essential problems that we're going to face if the internet just suddenly stopped working. This article not only picks up the lethal issues of the fall of the internet, it also tells us how vulnerable we're going to be if we are "disconnected".
The thing I really prefer this article over many others is because it targets the real and most serious problem we're going to face. Unlike other articles which talk about how we're going to cry all day, this article tells us that we are going to have some serious disaster when we're disconnected.
"The Internet was designed with the assumption that the communications links could not be trusted, but that the people that connected computers to the Internet were smart and trustworthy," Hillis tells Mashable via email. "Those assumptions no longer apply."
The internet if you look at it, it looks kind of like a bridge for our basic communication around the world. People go across the bridge to communicate with each other every day, and they've built a trusting relationship with the bridge. However, if the bridge, which is the stronghold of communication, collapsed, the people would no longer trust each other. At the least, not as much as before.

"Hillis tells stories of gaping security holes that have already led to incidents of our exposed vulnerability because we are using the Internet in services for which it wasn't originally built. It now supports the basic infrastructure of our society: funds transfers, shipping of food and oil, transportation and even the telephone system."
When the internet took over the world, we discovered that we can create many things that we could not have, so we create more and more systems that benefit our lives. But we didn't learn the fundamental skills to control them from the beginning. As a result, once the internet collapsed, we have no way to back ourselves up.
But hey, there's hope if that happens. Scientists and engineers are thinking of a way not to prevent it from happening, but a way to adapt to whatever the situation is going to be.
NOW let's gather 999 fresh animals for our one and only THE INTERNET GOD!
pls no lag, pls no lag...
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