Rise of the Machines
Yesterday one of the hungarian girl from downstairs was complaining to me about her hungarian T-Mobile phone, while I was installing their notebook. She didn't get any signal on the phone, however with placing another hungarian SIM card in it was working very well.
After it eliminated the option for the local transmission tower fault, I have told her, it must had been an issue on with her account/sim card.
Then a guy in the same flat was complaining about the same issue. Strange I thought.
In the morning on the bus we discussed the issue with that guy, Thomas, he told me, he did not have any network available for most of the time, but sometimes it gets another mobile network (Orange). This was the sign, that something bigger issue was going on here, an international roaming issue on the network. I asked him to call up the hungarian T-Mobile for information, but we did not have to wait to get that.
On the most important hungarian online news agency's address (www.index.hu) a new article was posted this morning, that in whole Europe the T-Group's international mobile roaming network went down. Later on they posted, that it was caused by cable cut in Germany at a construction site. They ripped a very important data cable (Fibre cut), this caused the issue which will be fixed soon.
This made me thinking how much we rely on the technology, and how a single fibre cut can effect our lifes. Also it clearly shows the vulnerable side of the current network we have without proper redundancy. A fibre cut can cause huge issues in communication, in our normal life, and our useful machines can turn into useless bricks without proper communication network.
Soon, as IT developes such an incredible speed, Skynet will born and emerge from our society, and we will face the rise of the machines, just as it was predicted in Terminator 3 :-), IF these machines will not be easily get disconnected and their communication shut down by a SINGLE FIBRE CUT.
<BTW> I started to watch the Terminator : Sarah Connor Chronicles tv series. It is quite good.
