Growing fears of technological disaster

    06-Oct-2024
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Vijay Garg
 Today's world is of technology. Measures like computers, internet, artificial intelligence have made our work easier in many ways. During the Covid pandemic, the world had seen that due to these facilities there was no major disruption in its movement. But this is one aspect of dependence on technology, the other aspect is what was presented before 19.
On July 2024, 5 lakh computers worldwide crashed due to a faulty technical update running on Microsoft Windows. ItsThe question is why this happened and whether the world can avoid such technological accidents. What happened after all that a minor update became a problem for the operation of computers. This data has been released by the Microsoft company itself that the problem that arose on July 19 caused a problem called 'Blue Death of Screen' (BDOS) on at least 85 lakh computers.
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