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What if the Internet Went Down … and Didn’t Come Back Up?

allthingsd.com » 2008 » January » 28th » What if the Internet Went Down … and Didn’t Come Back Up?

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By Lynn Greiner, Contributor, Network World Imagine, if you will, a world with no Internet. No email. No e-commerce. And no BlackBerrys. Email would be supplanted by snail mail; cellphones by landlines. Now imagine what the future would look like. Futurists say virtual business services of all sorts, accounting, payroll and even sales would come to a halt, as would many companies. This … Continue Reading »

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