>"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." - Ian Betteridge
The article's logic can be applied to many events and many systems. The entire thing is a "what-if" scenario, which generally follows the same formula: Identify something that is popular, think up some cascading failure scenario, end at apocalypse.
The ideas behind the article - our increasing dependence on interconnected software and infrastructure and the risks that entails - deserves to be explored and we should definitely work on mitigating risk of cascading failure. Framing it as an apocalypse scenario, however, takes away from the message (for me, at least).
The article's logic can be applied to many events and many systems. The entire thing is a "what-if" scenario, which generally follows the same formula: Identify something that is popular, think up some cascading failure scenario, end at apocalypse.
The ideas behind the article - our increasing dependence on interconnected software and infrastructure and the risks that entails - deserves to be explored and we should definitely work on mitigating risk of cascading failure. Framing it as an apocalypse scenario, however, takes away from the message (for me, at least).