Why the negativity. Mistakes happen ?

Because it's largely unnecessary. If people were more willing to push for decentralized alternatives then world-wide outages would be a thing of the past, short of the entire internet itself going down in which case you probably have bigger problems to worry about that loss of access to [x].

In my opinion it's not a question of if, but when we'll have our first disgruntled higher level employee manage to effectively destroy massive amounts of information and redundancies. As people become more and more dependent upon centralized services, the impact of this first 'digital nuke' will only continue to grow.

In some ways the internet feels like we have created a machine that can take us anywhere in the universe, but we've decided that instead we'll use it to take us strictly between New York and LA - occasionally with some 'wild' idea to take us to London.

Maybe think of it more as an opportunity to remember how we've let ourselves be lulled by this behemoth. Google itself is pretty much a spof for most of the world. If Google is down, so is business.

Of course, the report afterwards will be very interesting, while we pick apart the reasons on what and how it failed.

Probably just a Google employee waking up and becoming sentient again, running around pulling out as many cables as possible to save humanity. It should be up and running again when they catch and reset him.

There are enough email alternatives.

I am not affected by this outage but I get a bit angry when I think about how many people are. In a better world it would affect much fewer people.

That's pretty fundamentally stupid.

Why?