Summary: Holiday Tech Stumbles, Crashes, and Fails. For some, the end of 2018 was pretty sobering. Today - a provocative post-mortem into year-end fails. Future Forward looks backward. I’m Steven Rosenbaum - And I’m Gene DeRose… let’s launch Crashing The Holidays - 2018 HOLIDAY FAILS: - Instagram Instagram changes to a Tinder-style format and people melt down. ‘No Instagram no’ https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article223618705.html - Alexa Amazon Alexa crashes after Christmas Day overload https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/26/amazon-alexa-echo-crashes-christmas-day-overload - Century Link: 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/28/911-service-outage-centurylink/ - Bitcoin Cryptocurrency’s Terrible 2018 https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/bitcoin-price-cryptocurrency-bubble-burst.html Remember Bitcoin? Some Investors Might Want to Forget https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/technology/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-crash.html and - Civil: How a Plan to Save Journalism Stumbled Out of the Gate https://thebridgebk.com/how-plan-to-save-journalism-stumbled/ - Philips Hue Philips Hue suffers holiday outage as servers fail to cope with demand https://www.gearbrain.com/philips-hue-holiday-outage-2624563934.html - The US Government. 'Nothing New,' Says Trump as Shutdown Impasse Continues Through the Holidays http://time.com/5488084/donald-trump-shutdown-holidays/ - Fix blogpost - Twitch on Roku
