A tech too far: Have we become too dependent on technology?
Technology allowed life to continue through the pandemic, but its dark side includes cyberattacks, vicious online abuse and stress burnout
Coming after a year of rolling lockdowns, the HSE ransomware attack shocked the nation. Tech experts have warned us for years, of course: all networks are vulnerable.
One question on the lips of some, however, will go well beyond “can we secure our networks?” to something far more fundamental: “have we taken technology too far?”
That IT networks, both global and national, held up in the face of being thrown into remote working virtually overnight ...