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> For now let's assume the worst that can happen is that some important/significant chunk of (transitively) internet connected stuff goes haywire all at once. That's probably your upper limit of what can go wrong for now.

If we have to disconnect from the internet to stop some kind of mold outbreak, we can't get the weather or transfer money or access healthcare or teach an elementary school class or buy stuff from small businesses. That sounds doom-ish.

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Believe me, without the internet we can still teach.

We'll be pretty annoyed that we can't project the video that we think scaffolds today's science lesson best or show the approved choreography for the school play.

And our office staff will be annoyed that we suddenly are all running attendance to the main office old-school.

And students will take a few days to adjust to writing down homework in their planners again.

> We'll be pretty annoyed that we can't project the video that we think scaffolds today's science lesson best or show the approved choreography for the school play

There are offline wireless hdmi adapters, this is a solved problem. Just have to have the videos pre downloaded or offline available

Sure. 99% of teachers don't know yt-dlp or use things like that, though, so you can expect minor disruptions in a lot of rooms.

But, c'mon, we have complete power outages and still address our curriculum.

We just dont have the technology

Erm, hate to break it to you but majority of the world is doing those things at least 50% analog still.

What doom?

If anything the teaching would improve.

https://theonion.com/48-hour-internet-outage-plunges-nation-...

Elementary school dont need internet at all. You can happily live without weather app. Most of healthcare does not require internet, altrought the organization would be lwss effective.

So, you are loosing transfers, basically.

that's a big problem for the modern world that depends on the internet, but boy howdy we did all of those things without the internet.

ya see they had these things called cheques...

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