An excerpt from the Forbes article “Four Consequences From Today’s Global Internet Outages For Business Planning” by Steve Wunker:
…businesses need to plan for discontinuities, and not just in the sense of risk-mitigation. These events also create opportunities. Consider how the pandemic became a growth bonanza for many tech firms.
Jonathan Brill, formerly the lead futurist at HP and author of the upcoming book Rogue Waves, puts it this way: “It’s easy to look at events like today’s internet outage and say that you can’t can predict the future. The reality is that this was inevitable—and it was becoming increasingly likely. You can understand the range of possible futures and that’s how disrupters disrupt.”
