Ben Bradford Launches 1 Podcast on Long-Term Internet Outage Risks
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Updated · KQED · Jul 15
Ben Bradford Launches 1 Podcast on Long-Term Internet Outage Risks
2 articles · Updated · KQED · Jul 15
Summary
Ben Bradford has released “Are We Doomed?”, a new podcast examining whether a permanent or long-term internet collapse is plausible and how severely it could disrupt modern life.
The show explores failure scenarios including severed undersea cables and a massive solar storm, using them to test how resilient the global network really is.
Bradford and co-host Morgan also push the discussion beyond infrastructure, asking what a return to pre-internet life would look like for society and even online creators.
The launch positions the podcast as a broader public-facing look at digital fragility, drawing on recent outage examples such as AWS failures that briefly knocked services offline.