I'm sure many of you know about the data cable that was damaged, resulting in a huge loss of bandwidth for the middle east, namely India.<p>My question for you is this: How will this effect the rest of the world? Will America see its economy suffer from the loss of outsourced tech-support? What about the entangled economies of the Middle East and the rest of the world? Could poor communication of oil companies that operate there suffer and ultimately raise oil prices? Tell me what you think.<p>Here is a site to get you started:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail<p>Other articles are already on Hacker News.