Category: Y2K

Y2K Versus the Digital Darkness

September 20, 2022
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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…

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The Next Digital Darkness

September 20, 2022
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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…

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Should We Be Worried About the Next Apocalypse?

September 20, 2022
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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…

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John Robson: On Power Outages and Politicians’ Complacent Mindset That Nothing Serious Can Go Wrong

May 24, 2022
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Commentary Decades ago, I backpacked to exotic places where things were very different. For instance the electricity might work intermittently, and accountability not at all. But now that globalization has created a far more homogeneous world, culturally and technologically, um, they don’t work here either. Last winter I complained on Twitter, so I deserved whatever…

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