What if you woke up to an unexpected Internet breakdown?

如果某天你起床發現網路無預警癱瘓了會怎麼樣呢？

Would you be able to survive without checking Facebook for new postings first thing in the morning?

你早上一件事就是滑臉書最新貼文，如果無法做了你能活得下去嗎？

With no Google Maps to find your way in a strange city?

在陌生的城市裡沒有谷歌導航你能找到路嗎？

With a credit card unable to pay for lunch?

一張沒辦法付午餐錢的信用卡，你能生活嗎？

If you're watching this video, it means the internet is still going, but what if someone or something shut it down?

如果你在看這部影片，代表網路還在正常運作，但如果有人或因為某件事使網路停止運作了呢？

This is What If, and here's what would happen if the Internet stopped working.

這裡是 What If 頻道，而這次帶來的是「如果網路停擺了世界會怎麼樣」。

You could argue this kind of digital detox would be beneficial.

你可以說，這樣子的「科技排毒」對我們很有幫助。

We'd take our eyes off our screens and strike up real-life conversations with each other.

不做低頭族並與開始與周圍的人面對面交談。

We'd discovered that our smartphones can actually make phone calls.

我們也發現了智慧型手機其實可以打電話。

We bring back fax machines and start making notes by hand, well, maybe not fax machines.

我們會用回傳真機並開始手寫筆記，好啦或許不是傳真機。

And hey, we'd still have TV to entertain us, the world would not fall apart.

另外，我們還是有電視可以娛樂我們，這個世界不會因此崩塌。

In fact, with almost four billion people having no access to the Internet worldwide, half of humanity wouldn't notice a difference.

事實上，世界上還有將近 40 億人沒有使用網路，世界上有一半的人不會感覺到任何差別。

In the short term.

短時間來說。

But not you mighty Internet user, you would notice right away.

但您這位網路使用大戶一定馬上就有感了。

If the Internet suddenly flatlined, social media users would start calling each other on the phone, overloading the working telecommunication systems.

如果網路突然崩壞，社群軟體的使用者會開始打電話給對方，使得通訊設備工作量超出負荷。

Unless cell phone towers and telephone lines were also shut down.

除非基地台和電話纜線也都壞了。

Then you'd go back to writing letters and sending them via post.

你會回去用寫信並用郵寄的。

Forget about wireless file transfers, with no Wi-Fi, you'd have to use a physical cable to connect to computers or a CD.

先撇除沒有無線網路就無法無線傳輸檔案，你會需要連接實體的纜線來連接電腦或光碟。

Remember this?

還記得這個嗎？

Now think about the economy, with financial data generally stored on a server, banking services largely depend on the Internet.

現在想想經濟部分，財經數據都儲存在伺服器裡，銀行業務相當倚重網路。

E-transfers would be impossible.

所有轉帳手續都不可能執行了。

Your credit card and debit card would become a useless piece of plastic.

你的金融卡和信用卡會成為沒有用的一片塑膠。

And what about all those bitcoins you worked so hard to mine?

那那些你挖個老半天的比特幣呢？

Well, you know the answer.

嗯，我覺得你應該也知道答案了。

On top of that, large companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon would go out of business, losing their combined revenue of almost four hundred and forty billion dollars.

最重要的是，Google、Facebook 和 Amazon 這種大公司會倒閉，加總起來將損失將近 4000 億美元。

With Google itself having 80,000 full-time staff, hundreds of thousands of people would be left unemployed.

而就 Google 公司而言有 80000 名正職員工，數以千計的人將瞬間失業。

Even companies that only rely on the Internet as a means of advertising would be affected.

甚至僅僅是透過網路來投放廣告的公司也會受到影響。

Developed countries would lose entire industries and face economic crisis.

高度發展國家會喪失整個經濟產業和面臨經融危機。

What about those countries with just a small Internet presence?

那那些網路普及率很低的國家呢？

They would be affected too as international trade is dependent on the Internet, so is the world's transit.

他們也會受到影響因為國際貿易也是倚賴著網路進行，貨物運送也是。

With no Internet access between airports, planes, ships, trains and commercial trucking, we'd go back to tracking goods on paper.

如果機場、飛機、船隻、火車和卡車之間沒有網路連接，我們會需要重拾用紙筆來記錄貨物流向。

This would raise the market value on transported products, as it would be more complicated to deliver goods to stores.

這會使貨運產品的市值增加，因為運送貨物到商店的難度會增加。

At least you could still travel, however, you won't have Instagram to share your travel selfies anymore.

至少你還可以旅行，但你再也無法在 Instagram 上面分享自己旅遊的自拍了。

Wonder if the Internet shutdown is even possible?

想知道網路到底有沒有可能被關掉嗎？

Well, not on a worldwide level.

不會是全球都被關掉的程度。

Some countries have actually introduced a kill switch to intentionally shut down the internet and telephone communications.

有些國家其實有可以刻意關閉網路和通訊系統的控制開關。

But killing the whole internet is harder than just cutting off a couple submarine cables.

但扼殺整個網路世界比單純切掉一些海底電纜要難上許多。

The Internet is a global network of many other computer networks.

網路是一個國際性、由許多電腦互相串聯而成的互聯網。

It doesn't depend on a single machine.

它並不單倚賴單一機器。

Even if one part of it went offline others would remain functional.

就算其中一部分失去作用，其他電腦還是會持續運轉。

So don't worry, you'll still be able to order pizza for dinner tonight.

所以別擔心，你今天晚餐還是可以用網路叫比薩來吃。