{"id":838221,"date":"2024-07-29T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=838221"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:06:36","slug":"technologys-grip-on-modern-life-is-pushing-us-down-a-dimly-lit-path-of-digital-land-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/29\/technologys-grip-on-modern-life-is-pushing-us-down-a-dimly-lit-path-of-digital-land-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology&#8217;s grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: &#8220;Move fast and break things,&#8221; a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed to help protect computers &#8211; not crash them.<\/p>\n<p> The worldwide technology meltdown caused a flawed update installed earlier this month on computers running on Microsoft&#8217;s dominant Windows software by cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike was so serious that some affected businesses such as Delta Air Lines were still recovering from it days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: &#8220;Move fast and break things,&#8221; a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed to help protect computers &#8211; not crash them. The worldwide technology meltdown caused a flawed update installed earlier this month on computers running on Microsoft&#8217;s dominant Windows software by cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike was so serious that some affected businesses such as Delta Air Lines were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}