Without computers, the most dizzying disorganisation would take over the human: states would be unable to collect taxes or manage budgets, multinationals would explode into incoherent fragments, banks would lose all control over their funds, international trade would get stuck in an incomprehensible bottleneck of stocks, sales and collections impossible to disentangle, telephones would suddenly go silent, rail networks would be a continuous massacre of trains ramming into trains and high-traffic airports, a deadly aerial circus of crashing jumbo jets.
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