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Editor, Health Impact News
Millions of people around the world got a very small taste of what can happen when technology fails on Monday this week when most of the Google network went down, and people could not access their Gmail email accounts, YouTube videos, and many other Google services.
For those who rely upon Google for home devices, it was a sobering wake-up call.
Early Monday morning, Joe Brown walked into his daughter’s room and delivered his usual greeting, “Hey, Google, turn on the lights.” He owns a Google smart speaker that lets him control the lights with his voice, and which, “when you’re holding a kid with a bottle or a diaper full of crap, is usually pretty good,” he said.