“Putting the Internet into a device that can be with us all the time is a definite step toward making it the opiate of society.” Esther Paniagua.

In computer language, “error 404” is translated as a response to a user trying to access an unavailable site on the network, that is, “dead link” (dead link). Now imagine a scenario where all of a sudden, all Internet services stop working.

According to M15 (United Kingdom Security Service), we will be four meals away from anarchy.

Forty-eight hours as a chaos deadline in the transition from normal to another crisis.

This is how Spanish journalist and writer specializing in science, technology and cybersecurity, Esther Paniagua, discusses it in her latest book “Error 404, ready for a world without Internet?” Editorial Debate, published for Mexico in 2022.

Paniagua, who has been voted among the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Forbes Spain magazine, presents us with extraordinary X-rays of current issues that imply humanity’s total dependence on the age of technology and especially the Internet.

Throughout this book we will provide an account of ongoing investigations that lead us to consider the risks that have occurred in recent history regarding: hacking, computer terrorism, crime, addiction and consumerism, misinformation, digital tyranny, and of course all the implications. intrinsically engaged in related to a new way of digital life.

Well, as the author contributes so well in various chapters: “the majority of the population between the ages of 18 and 65 wakes up and goes to sleep looking at their mobile phone screens… Three thousand five hundred million people, nearly half of the world’s population have smartphones…

Access to information in real time, social networks, video games, and applications are designed to attract and hold our attention, and there’s a whole science behind it, “captology”: the study of computers as machines of manipulation or whatever, ways of automating persuasion…”

Highly recommended reading for understanding the digital world and the technology that surrounds us, until it goes out.

We are what we have read and this, the reader says.