Imagine this. At 8.37pm tonight, as one section of the national grid is hit by a sharp imbalance between electricity supply and demand, the entire network starts to go down. One piece topples the next, like dominoes.
The country goes dark. The lights switch off in every home and business. Airports, hospitals and other essential utilities scramble to switch to back-up generators.
Trains and lifts judder to a halt. Mobile phone transmitter towers switch to battery and back-up power, but networks rapidly become congested and coverage progressively deteriorates.
Firefighters struggling to contain wildfires across the country face catastrophic disruption as computer systems and
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