The Internet Has Crashed – Data Lost

Google is taking over the world as we know it. There's nothing new about that. In just a few years they will hold all our information: our e-mails (GMail), our love-letters and personal finance spreadsheets (Google Documents), our personal and business appoinments (GCal), our photographs (Picasa Web) and our positioning (Google Maps / Google Earth). Privacy is a Twentieth century phenomenon. In the 21st we choose the conveniences of communicating and working via the Internet over keeping our information physically in our vicinity. We choose to publish rather than whisper our opinions and we are constantly letting others know what we're doing (Twitter) or where we are (WAYN) and storing our information online.

If the Internet were to disappear, how incapacitated would we suddenly be? Nissan sponsored a viral video of a spoof news report about the Internet crashing. It's quite humourous. I like the premisse as it seems to me like a 21st Century version of Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast.