A phone-and-web blackout in rural Victoria reveals how reliant we are on the trappings of modern life. reprinted: Jackson Stiles Advisor Editor The New Daily In November 2012, a huge chunk of rural Victoria was plunged into a profound technological darkness. A fire at the Telstr.

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