https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-crowdstrike-outage-cash/
To the surprise of many it didn’t take very long. Shops coped as they worked out prices and how to give customers change. Buskers too figured out how to take cash again. They were doing such brisk business, as people’s devices refused to stream, they didn’t care. Businesses large and small suddenly found having teams walking to each other’s desks to discuss something changed the office. But the biggest shift was in people’s mood. They walked the streets looking up: a sort of post-doomscrolling mindfulness, occasionally stopping to read the latest conspiracy theory hastily handwritten and pinned to a tree.
