July 6, 2008

Internet Blackout!






Last Thursday Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest metropolitan area suffered an Internet blackout.  The result was total chaos for banking, e-commerce, stock trading... affecting pretty much every aspect of business.  

A few weeks ago, I went into one of my friend's blogs and was surprised to see a message saying it was deleted.  A few days later I spoke to him and found out that his blog had simply vanished and even after contacting Google, since he uses Blogger, they didn't restore his content.  He was obviously devastated. 

Two incidents to remind us how dependent we all are of technology and communication.  

1 comment:

Alexandre van Beeck said...

Carlos,
Como conversamos, além de ter se tornado um prazer, ter um blog é um excelente exercício de observação e me tornou mais crítico.
Nunca imaginei que sentiria tanta falta de escrever no meu blog.
O Google não me ajudou em nada para recupera-lo, então tive que recria-lo e consegui recuperar grande parte dos meus posts.
Estou voltando à ativa!
Abs,
Alexandre