What happens when the Internet goes out in Southeast Alaska?

For everyone that hasn't read the article by Neal Stephenson on under ocean fiber optic, here it is: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

If you haven't read it, I strongly recommend it. It covers how under ocean cable is laid, how the construction industry works, how the telephone industry works, and the history of the telephone/telegraph.

Cool article about undersea cables (instead of working on a fishing rig in Alaska it would be fun to work a specialized fiber-laying vessel like the Wave Venture mentioned in the article.)

But honestly I was expecting something more along the lines of a measurable uptick in births 9 months later. :)

Speaking personally, I head home and wish that my employer wasn't on ACS.

There is a series of tubes joke to be made here.