It’s come to pass – the biggest single IT failure in history, and it was all the fault of Microsoft Windows botched updates!!!
It’s not necessarily bad news though:
Hopefully this will dampen enthusiasm for total tech reliance, especially for things such as cashless transactions which by definition don’t work in times of serious crisis.
If you think IT failures are bad just wait until we have problems with electricity. This –will– happen by the way, not just because of mismanagement of energy infrastructure but especially by war…
There is nowhere on Earth unaffected by war on a sufficient timeline after all.