We have hardly realized it, but in the last two decades we have experienced an important change that has made us a very modern society, so much so that we have advanced in many ways even more than we could have imagined just a few years ago. before.. Yes, it is true that there are still goals that we have not been able to achieve, but that it can be anyone connected to the internet and the worldfrom anywhere using a device that fits in your pocket It seems such an important achievement that I finally dare to forgive the rest of the backlog.

Understandably, progress has been made one of the key pillars of the society in which we live. Thanks to this, we can see and talk to our loved ones no matter where they are, we can also go to the doctor’s office, buy things we need for the home, train ourselves professionally and intellectually, socialize, work, enjoy our free time and look for new ways to make money.

Impressive, no doubt, but behind this modernity lies great fragilityand to display the button. Just a few days ago, Japanese telephone operator KDDI Corporation suffered a massive power outage that left 40 million people completely disconnected. Imagine the situation, you wake up in the morning, reach for your smartphone to see if you have messages and check your emails, but you are offline and unable to do either. You can’t browse the internet and obviously both your social networks and your favorite multimedia content are unavailable.

This was the experience of 40 million Japanese people, and one that could house more than 7,000 million people if there was a global blackout. Can you imagine that situation? If that were to happen, the very modern society we have created could suffer significant damage and, depending on the duration of the outage, certain industries, companies and markets could collapse.

I don’t want to be a doomsday, the chances of this happening are pretty slim, but what happened to the phone operator KDDI Corporation and the misfortune that its 40 million customers suffered, is another reminder of how fragile our society really isdespite all the pompous modernity that wastes day by day.

As an anecdote, I want to end by recalling this KDDI advised its customers to return to the analog and cable era, because he literally told them to use landlines or public booths. It’s strange because the former have been eliminated in many homes and even some businesses for years, and the latter have been threatened with extinction for years.