When tech fails, we need to rely on each other more

Opinion: I don’t know if anyone else who has watched Leave the World Behind on Netflix began to wonder if its apocalyptic storyline was unfolding in real time as news filtered out on Friday evening about booking systems going off-line, flights being grounded and blue screens dominating self-service checkouts across the world.
Although CrowdStrike relatively quickly reassured us this was a defect in a software update for a security product, it was pause for thought. The key message on Friday night was that it had been fixed and therefore was not the cyberattack that Leave the World Behind foreshadows. But what if it had not been such an easy fix, or worse that it was an act of cyber warfare?