A slightly chilly spell causes communications systems to collapse, the transport network buckles under three millimetres of snow, shops are forced to close by a sustained frost and we all end up eating decades old tins of Alphabetti Spaghetti.
Relief efforts were being hampered by a collapse in communications, raising fears that a widespread humanitarian disaster was unravelling across the impoverished Himalayan nation of 28 million.
Its "scenes of urban destruction - chaos in the streets, collapse in communications - intentionally call to mind everyone's worst terrorism nightmares", the Chronicle observes.
Relief efforts were being hampered by a collapse in communications, raising fears that a widespread humanitarian disaster was unravelling across the impoverished Himalayan nation of 28m.
Efforts to access the worst-affected areas of Haiti – including the Grand'Anse and Sud departments – were at first hampered by flooding, the collapse of communications networks and the destruction of a key bridge.
It's as well to mention at this point that, in 2005, Mikhail Gorbachev personally congratulated Kurzweil for foreseeing the pivotal role of communications technology in the collapse of the Soviet Union, and that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates calls him "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence".
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — After nearly a week of incessant rains and flooding that have left hundreds of people dead in Pakistan and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, rescue operations have been strained by the scale of the disaster and a collapse of communications networks in some areas.
The simple words "Someone has received information that this person is alive" next to a relative's name are often all people have to rely on in trying to find information about their relatives given the near total collapse of communications systems.
Similar mergers are likely to follow.Coopers & Lybrand, responsible for auditing Britain's collapsed Maxwell Communications media group, is to pay a record £68m ($108m) to settle negligence claims by creditors.
