Technology and Modernization Quotes in The Corrections

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

So a country whose citizens, like so many of their Western counterparts, had simply disconnected their copper-wire telephones when cell phones became cheap and universal was plunged into a communications silence of nineteenth-century proportions. (5.973)

Here's the serious downside to the cloud-based world we currently reside in: All it takes is one flipped switch for the whole system to crash. Now excuse us while we go back-up everything we own.