What if the Internet failed?

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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
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