Cats Would Do Great

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (which I wrote about here) is a lot of things, but one part of the book details the slow elimination of human beings on Earth. While I was reading the book, I kept thinking: “would infrastructure really collapse that fast without people maintaining it” (about 6 months or less for some major pieces).

After learning about The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (a review is on the Washington Post site and he appeared on the Diane Rehm Show), I suppose I am convinced some things would disappear much faster.

Weisman’s book details what would happen to our planet without any people on it and it isn’t good for the Internet. For sure it is something that Web developers have known for a long time. Web sites not only don’t build themselves they also don’t keep themselves running!

From what I understand, cats and bronze statues come out great (dogs and cockroaches not so much). I have to read this book!