Remember Christmases when the outages of Netflix or Steam wouldn’t have been factors? It was only a few years ago when it wouldn’t have been as noticed or even regarded.
Of course now we can add large-scale technical glitches to other holiday annoyances like non-working Christmas lights, traffic, closed businesses, and crowded airports. I wonder how used we’ll get to them.
I imagine not very. We expect instant service from our technology, even if we usually accept much less. However I imagine Netflix and Valve know this and will work to correct things for next year.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.