And the Cascading Failure accelerates

That’s a term used to describe the process where, as one essential component of a system fails, it overloads the one below it, which overloads the next, and so on, until a final, catastrophic collapse is reached. The human body can suffer a cascading failure, as can power grids, computers, and even entire countries. That’s been happening for decades here, at an ever-faster pace. Today ushers in a new stage.