I don’t think it’s the focus of this, but we do now live in a time where the collapse could potentially happen in an hour.
Which means we might be living in collapse now, we just don't know it yet. "The Long Emergency" as James Howard Kunstler put it.
When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't people stop listening to them?
Funnily enough - not whatsoever! And the benefits of this amazing fact are reaped by economists* the world over, year after year.
* And, to be fair, journalists, politicians, various flavours of youtuber, etc, etc.
Yet people still listen to Musk about when Tesla will have autonomous driving.
I'm assuming you're talking about the internet, networked services, etc, because that's the only conceivable way a collapse could happen that quickly... except all modern infrastructure we rely on like that has backups and redundancy built in, and largely separated failure domains, so that such a failure would never be able to happen that quickly.