Bob Metcalfe repeatedly predicted a "gigalapse" which he defined as a loss of one billion hours of Internet connectivity. Bob would say look at how fragile this all is, and his point wasn't (although at the time it would too often be portrayed this way) "the Internet will fail" because Bob isn't actually an idiot, but it also shows a substantial lack of foresight anyway. Of course ~everybody will have the Network, the Internet is the Network, and so then normal sleep is an order of magnitude worse than a "gigalapse" yet happens every day and we don't even care.

The "gigalapse" seemed like a big deal because proportionally a billion user hours in 1995 is everything doesn't work for days, or most things don't work for several weeks... but today of course it could also be everybody in the world is inconvenienced for about long enough to make breakfast. Oh no.