The Fragility of the Digital Age

The Fragility of the Digital Age
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The outage is “catastrophic.” So arrived the message from a server that hosts a service that is important to my life. Seemingly out of nowhere, the world came to an end for a full day until power was restored.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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