When the internet dies

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the heart of one of the most connected cities in the world, the Internet has gone down. Amid the blackout, a group of New Yorkers scrambles to set up a local network and get vital information as the situation unfolds. The scenario is part of a drill staged on Apr 5 in Manhattan by art and technology non-profit center Eyebeam, and it mimics on a small scale the outage that affected New Yorkers after superstorm Sandy hit in 2012. Here, Hodson determines whether communication networks built mostly on meagre battery power and mobile devices can be created rapidly when disaster strikes