Yesterday morning, just as business meetings were getting underway and many classes in the U.S. were starting, the videoconferencing service Zoom stopped working. Anyone whose business meeting was cancelled by the outage could have spent their time usefully by reading E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops . But Monday's Zoom shutdown came as a rude reminder for those in meetings where no one else showed up — and for those trapped on the outside. Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom Video Communications, is shown at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York on April 18, 2019. As one professor at an Ontario university said, there is a backup system, but Zoom remains the default.

Source: CBC News August 25, 2020 07:52 UTC