The United Nations warn about big dangers. Our digital world is very weak. A big outage is called a Super-GAU. This outage threatens many people. The countries are not ready for it.
Satellites could fail suddenly. Electricity could be gone in many places. Cables under the sea could break. Then phones and the internet do not work. Hospitals also lose important data then.
The experts call this a digital pandemic. There are 3 bad events. A solar storm could destroy the power grid. Intense heat could turn off data centers. Earthquakes in the sea can destroy important cables.
In the year 2022 such an earthquake happened. A cable near the island state Tonga broke. The people had no internet for 5 weeks. The world must plan better. We need systems without internet for emergencies.
