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Y2K Sent A Warning. The CrowdStrike Outage Shows We Failed to Heed It
We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane glitch could bring everything crashing down. Air travel …