What Next: TBD Oct 24, 20255:30 AM The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning Why a mesh of cloud services and undersea cables make for a very delicate web. This week’s AWS outage illustrates just how fragile and vulnerable our interconnected world really is—and how far we’ve fallen from the vision of a decentralized internet. Guest: Samanth Subramanian, author of “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.”
There’s a bunch of reasons consolidation is bad. Consolidation is not strength, it’s weakness.
I keep thinking about how the big data centers are probably military targets. As if there weren’t so many reasons you don’t want one in your neighborhood.