The Day the Internet Broke

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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If you’re reading this, you have access to the Internet. But what would happen if the Internet suddenly went away? And what would it take to make that happen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm
0:13.0	your host.
0:14.0	Meanwhile in the future is a podcast about the future.
0:16.0	More specifically, it's a podcast in which every week we really overthink a
0:20.0	different future scenario.
0:22.0	Each episode we start with a little field trip into the
0:24.2	future, then we hop back in our handy teleporter and come back to now where we
0:28.4	work through that future we just saw with the help of some experts. Ready?
0:32.1	Great. This week we're going to start in the year with the help of some experts. Ready?
0:32.5	Great.
0:33.4	This week we're going to start in the year 2032. Hello? This is kind of weird but um did your internet just go out?
0:57.0	Let me check. Yeah, I think so.
1:05.2	I'm going to go repeat the router, okay?
1:07.2	Okay.
1:08.2	Do that fit.
1:09.2	Hey, what's up?
1:12.2	Hey, what's up?
1:14.0	Okay, it's just back up.
1:15.0	I don't know if you're your internet working?
1:18.0	But yeah, I don't know.
1:20.0	And I can't figure out why no one in my office.
1:22.0	Yeah, we had the same thing here and it said, it's like,
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