What if you woke up to an unexpected Internet breakdown假如你一觉醒来发现网络突然崩溃了Would you be able to survive? 你还能继续正常生活吗？Without checking facebook for new postings first thing in the morning?早上一起来看不到脸书上的新帖子？With no Google Maps to find your way in a strange city?在陌生城市没有谷歌地图帮你查找路线？With a credit card unable to pay for lunch?不能再用信用卡支付午餐？If you’re watching this video,如果你正在看这个视频it means the Internet is still going,那说明网络仍在运行but what if someone or something shut it down但假如有人或什么东西关掉了它怎么办and here’s what would happen if the internet stopped working下面是在网络停止运行后可能发生的事You could argue this kind of digital detox would be beneficial你也许会说这种电子戒断是有益的We’d take our eyes off our screens我们将目光从屏幕上移开then strike up real-life conversations with each other.回到现实生活中面对面的交谈We’ve discovered that our smartphones can actually make phone calls我们会发现智能手机其实是用来打电话的We bring back fax machines and start making notes by hand我们又开始使用传真机并开始记手写笔记Well, maybe not fax machines好吧 也许用不着传真机and hey, we’d still have TV to entertain us嘿 我们还有电视可以看the world would not fall apart世界还不至于会崩溃In fact, with almost 4 billion people事实上 全球大约有四十亿人having no access to the Internet worldwide目前还无法使用互联网Half of humanity wouldn’t notice a difference in the short term有一半人在短期内并不会注意到生活变化But not you, mighty internet user.但作为重度网络用户的你不会you would notice right away你会立刻注意到If the internet suddenly flatlined如果互联网突然崩溃social media users would start calling each other on the phone社交媒体的用户们会开始通过打电话交流overloading the working telecommunication systems增加了电信系统的工作负担Unless cell phone towers and telephone lines were also shut down除非移动手机和电话线路也被关闭Then you’d go back to writing letters and sending them via post然后你会重新开始写信 通过邮局寄递Forget about Wireless file transfers with no Wi-Fi.没有无线网络就不要想着在线传输文件了You’d have to use a physical cable to connect to computers你不得不用实体电缆连接电脑or a CD, remember this?或用光盘刻录 还记得这个东西吗？Now think about the economy现在 想想经济with financial data generally stored on a server由于金融数据一般储存在服务器上banking services largely depend on the Internet银行服务很大程度上依赖于互联网Each transfers would be impossible所有传输都将无法进行Your credit card and debit card would become a useless piece of plastic你的信用卡和借记卡变成了没用的塑料片and what about all those bitcoins? You worked so hard to mine*币特比**又会如何呢？你曾那么辛苦地挖矿Well, you know the answer你明白会发生什么On top of that在行业金字塔顶端large companies like Google Facebook and Amazon would go out of business像谷歌 脸书和亚马逊这样的大公司会停业losing their combined revenue of almost four hundred and forty billion dollars合计失去大约四千四百亿美金的收入with Google itself having 80,000 full-time staff仅仅谷歌就有八万名全职员工hundreds of thousands of people would be left unemployed数万人将会失业Even companies that only rely on the Internet as a means of advertising would be affected仅靠互联网打广告的公司也会受到冲击Developed countries would lose entire industries发达国家的工业体系会全面崩溃and face economic crisis面临经济危机What about those countries with just a small internet presence?那些互联网不发达的国家又会怎样？They would be affected too as international trade is dependent on the internet.它们也会受到影响 因为国际贸易依赖网络So is the world’s transit世界交通也同样如此With no internet access between airports planes ships trains and commercial trucking由于机场 飞机 轮船 火车和商业卡车之间失去了互联网的连接we’d go back to tracking goods on paper我们只好通过书面来追踪货物This would raise the market value on transported products远距离运输的商品的市场价格会上涨as it would be more complicated to deliver goods to stores因为货运流程会变得复杂化At least you could still travel.但至少你还能旅行However, you won’t have Instagram to share your travel selfies anymore虽然不能在INS上分享自拍照了Wonder if the internet shutdown is even possible?你在想互联网是否有可能崩溃吗？Well, not on a worldwide level虽然世界范围内还没有Some countries have actually introduced a kill switch一些国家实际上已引进了一个断网开关to intentionally shut down the internet and telephone communications去有意切断互联网和电话通讯But killing the whole internet但切断互联网is harder than just cutting off a couple submarine cables远比切断几根海底电缆要困难The Internet is a global network of many other computer networks.互联网是拥有许多计算机网络的全球网络It doesn’t depend on a single machine并不仅依赖于一台机器Even if one part of it went offline即使一部分离线others would remain functional.其他部分仍能正常工作So don’t worry.所以别担心You’ll still be able to order pizza for dinner tonight至少今晚你还可以下单披萨作为晚餐