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What if the Internet failed?
FromEuropean Parliament - EPRS Science and Technology podcasts
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Length:
4 minutes
Released:
Oct 1, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Since its early development in the 1960s, Internet infrastructure has become almost as important as electricity and transport infrastructures in contemporary societies. More and more key services such as banking, food retail, and health care, rely on Internet connections. Despite its original resilient decentralised design, the increasing importance of a few central players and centralising developments have made the Internet more vulnerable to failure. What repercussions would that entail? Listen to our podcast to know more!
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_ATA(2021)690044
https://youtu.be/wggqWelXPLk
Source: © European Union - EP
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_ATA(2021)690044
https://youtu.be/wggqWelXPLk
Source: © European Union - EP
Released:
Oct 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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