The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning

<p>This week’s AWS outage illustrates just how fragile and vulnerable our interconnected world really is—and how far we’ve fallen from the vision of a decentralized internet. </p><p>Guest: <a href="https://samanth.substack.com/"><u>Samanth Subramanian</u></a>, author of “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYHNKFL9/?tag=slatmaga-20"><u>The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.</u></a>”</p><p>Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at<a href="http://slate.com/whatnextplus"><u> slate.com/whatnextplus</u></a><u> </u>to get access wherever you listen.</p><p>Podcast production by Evan Campbell, and Patrick Fort.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' ...