Commentary
Everyone loves a good apocalypse, and in 2022, there’s an end times for everyone. Some apocalypses are fictional—great for corporate lobbying and political ambition. Others are overplayed as a “get rich quick” scheme that vanishes without explanation.
But the real apocalypses, the ones that pose a genuine threat to civilisation, rarely make it to print. After all, there’s a difference between fear and terror, and no sensible politician wants to start a panic.
Societies built on technology become vulnerable to its flaws in the same way desert empires fear cloudless skies.
At the rate human civilisation is evolving, a true digital catastrophe would likely cause a Year Zero event, an epoch defined by digital darkness….